lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2009]   [Jul]   [16]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] mm: shrink_inactive_lis() nr_scan accounting fix fix
From
Good.
I decided making patch like this since I knew this problem.
You are too diligent :)

Thanks for good attitude.

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:53 AM, KOSAKI
Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: shrink_inactive_lis() nr_scan accounting fix fix
>
> If sc->isolate_pages() return 0, we don't need to call shrink_page_list().
> In past days, shrink_inactive_list() handled it properly.
>
> But commit fb8d14e1 (three years ago commit!) breaked it. current shrink_inactive_list()
> always call shrink_page_list() although isolate_pages() return 0.
>
> This patch restore proper return value check.
>
>
> Requirements:
>  o "nr_taken == 0" condition should stay before calling shrink_page_list().
>  o "nr_taken == 0" condition should stay after nr_scan related statistics
>     modification.
>
>
> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>

--
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2009-07-16 06:13    [W:0.182 / U:0.084 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site