Re: [PATCH 2/3] damon: Convert damon_pa_mark_accessed_or_deactivate() to use folios

From: Vishal Moola
Date: Tue Dec 06 2022 - 21:44:13 EST


On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 4:56 PM SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Vishal,
>
>
> Thank you for this patch.
>
> Nit pick. Could we please replace 'damon:' on the subject with 'mm/damon:' to
> look more consistent with other DAMON patches?

Thanks for looking over this patch! I'll make the subject mm/damon in a v2.

> On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 16:21:57 -0800 "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > This change replaces 2 calls to compound_head() with one.
>
> I guess you mean _compound_head() calls in page_folio() that called from
> mark_page_accessed() and folio_mark_accessed(). However, deactivate_page()
> calls page_folio() anyway, so this patch doesn't reduce the number of calls to
> one but keep the number, correct? Am I missing something? If I'm not, I'd
> like to clean up the wording.

The 2 calls I was referring to were from mark_page_accessed() and put_page().
As you've noticed, deactivate_page() still calls page_folio() here :).

> > This is in preparation for the conversion of deactivate_page() to
> > deactivate_folio().
>
> I think folio_deactivate() might be a more consistent naming. What do you
> think?

I do like the name folio_deactivate() better than deactivate_folio(), I'll
change that in v2 as well.