Re: [Question Resend] About z3fold page migration

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Oct 12 2020 - 10:05:05 EST


On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 02:00:17PM +0000, linmiaohe wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Many thanks for brilliant z3fold code. I am reading it and have some questions about it. It's very nice of you if you can explain it for me.
> 1.page->private is used in z3fold but PagePrivate flag is never set, should we SetPagePrivate for it?

No. SetPagePrivate and page->private are related in interesting and
complicated ways. I'm working on some documentation for it at the moment,
but the short answer is: no.

> 2.Since PagePrivate flag is never set, why we ClearPagePrivate in free_z3fold_page and z3fold_page_migrate?

That's probably a bug.

> 3.Should we add page to the unbuddied list in z3fold_page_putback() when zhdr->refcount does not reach 0 since we remove it from unbuddied list
> in z3fold_page_isolate? Or When we will add page to the unbuddied list after z3fold_page_putback?

This one I do not know the answer to.