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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] mm: update_page_reclaim_stat() is called form page fault path
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> > +void update_page_reclaim_stat(struct page *page)
> > +{
> > + struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
> > +
> > + spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
> > + /* if the page isn't reclaimable, it doesn't update reclaim stat */
> > + if (PageLRU(page) && !PageUnevictable(page)) {
> > + update_page_reclaim_stat_locked(zone, page,
> > + !!page_is_file_cache(page), 1);
> > + }
> > + spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
> > +}
>
> And we just added a spin_lock_irq() and a bunch of other stuff to it.
>
> Can we improve this?
>
> Can we just omit it, even?
>
> Can we update those stats locklessly and accomodate the resulting
> inaccuracy over at the codesites where these statistics are actually
> used?

fair enough.
thanks good suggestion.

I'm working it on.





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