Re: [PATCH 3/3] add isolate pages vmstat

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Mon Jul 20 2009 - 01:40:28 EST


> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
> > > Why do a separate pass over all the migrates pages? Can you add the
> > > _inc_xx somewhere after the page was isolated from the lru by calling
> > > try_to_unmap()?
> >
> > calling try_to_unmap()? the pages are isolated before calling migrate_pages().
> > migrate_pages() have multiple caller. then I put this __inc_xx into top of
> > migrate_pages().
>
> Then put the inc_xxx's where the pages are isolated.

Is there any benefit? Why do we need sprinkle __inc_xx to many place?



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