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

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Mon Jul 20 2009 - 12:23:18 EST


> On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
> > > 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?
>
> Its only needed in one place where the pages are isolated.

Umm.. I haven't understand this benefit. but I guess I can do that.
I'll think it later deeply.




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