Re: [RFC 1/2] mm: disable LRU pagevec during the migration temporarily

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Wed Feb 17 2021 - 16:23:51 EST


On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 09:11:43PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 12:51:25PM -0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > I'd like to avoid atomic operation if we could.
>
> Why do you think that the spinlock is better?
>

Michal suggested atomic_inc in writeside and atomic_read in readside.
I wanted to avoid atomic operation in readside path.

You are suggesting atomic for writeside and just read(not atomic_read)
in readside?