Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: correct nr_reclaimed for THP

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri May 10 2019 - 12:53:36 EST


On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 09:50:04AM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> On 5/10/19 9:36 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 10:12:40AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> > > > + nr_reclaimed += (1 << compound_order(page));
> > > How about to change this to
> > >
> > > nr_reclaimed += hpage_nr_pages(page);
> > Please don't. That embeds the knowledge that we can only swap out either
> > normal pages or THP sized pages. I'm trying to make the VM capable of
> > supporting arbitrary-order pages, and this would be just one more place
> > to fix.
> >
> > I'm sympathetic to the "self documenting" argument. My current tree has
> > a patch in it:
> >
> > mm: Introduce compound_nr
> > Replace 1 << compound_order(page) with compound_nr(page). Minor
> > improvements in readability.
> >
> > It goes along with this patch:
> >
> > mm: Introduce page_size()
> >
> > It's unnecessarily hard to find out the size of a potentially huge page.
> > Replace 'PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page)' with page_size(page).
>
> So you prefer keeping using  "1 << compound_order" as v1 did? Then you will
> convert all "1 << compound_order" to compound_nr?

Yes. Please, let's merge v1 and ignore v2.