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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3][v2] vmstat: add anon_scan_ratio field to zoneinfo
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> Hi, Kosaki.
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:21 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > Changelog
> >  from v1
> >  - get_anon_scan_ratio don't tak zone->lru_lock anymore
> >   because zoneinfo_show_print takes zone->lock.
>
> When I saw this changelog first, I got confused.
> That's because there is no relation between lru_lock and lock in zone.
> You mean zoneinfo is allowed to have a stale data?
> Tend to agree with it.

Well. zone->lock and zone->lru_lock should be not taked at the same time.
[1/4] of my last version removed zone->lock, then get_anon_scan_ratioo()
can take zone->lru_lock. but I dropped it. thus get_anon_scan_ration() can't
take zone->lru_lock.

Thus, I added need_update parameter.


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