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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: merge duplicate code in shrink_active_list()
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:26:33PM +0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009 10:53:19 +0800
> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > The "move pages to active list" and "move pages to inactive list"
> > code blocks are mostly identical and can be served by a function.
> >
> > Thanks to Andrew Morton for pointing this out.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> > ---
> > mm/vmscan.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
> > 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- linux.orig/mm/vmscan.c
> > +++ linux/mm/vmscan.c
> > @@ -1225,6 +1225,36 @@ static inline void note_zone_scanning_pr
> > * But we had to alter page->flags anyway.
> > */
> >
> > +void move_active_pages_to_lru(enum lru_list lru, struct list_head *list)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long pgmoved = 0;
> > +
> > + while (!list_empty(&list)) {
> > + page = lru_to_page(&list);
> > + prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, &list, flags);
> > +
> > + VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
> > + SetPageLRU(page);
> > +
> > + VM_BUG_ON(!PageActive(page));
> > + if (lru < LRU_ACTIVE)
> > + ClearPageActive(page);
>
> Arithmetic on the LRU list is not good code for redability, I think.
> How about adding comment?
>
> if (lru < LRU_ACTIVE) /* In case of moving from active list to inactive */
>
> Ignore me if you think this is trivial.

Good suggestion. Or this simple one: "we are de-activating"?

Thanks,
Fengguang


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