Messages in this thread | | | From | KOSAKI Motohiro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 4/8] Make clear description of putback_lru_page | Date | Sun, 1 May 2011 22:13:28 +0900 (JST) |
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> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:20:32AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:11 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > > <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:25:21 +0900 > > > Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Commonly, putback_lru_page is used with isolated_lru_page. > > >> The isolated_lru_page picks the page in middle of LRU and > > >> putback_lru_page insert the lru in head of LRU. > > >> It means it could make LRU churning so we have to be very careful. > > >> Let's clear description of putback_lru_page. > > >> > > >> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> > > >> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> > > >> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> > > >> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> > > >> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> > > > > > > seems good... > > > Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> > > > > > > But is there consensus which side of LRU is tail? head? > > > > I don't know. I used to think it's head. > > If other guys raise a concern as well, let's talk about it. :) > > Thanks > > I suppose we add new pages to the head of the LRU and reclaim old > pages from the tail. > > Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
So, It would be better if isolate_lru_page() also have "LRU tail blah blah blah" comments.
anyway, Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
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