Re: [PATCH] mm/memcg: fix obsolete function name in mem_cgroup_protection()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Sun Jul 23 2023 - 16:37:45 EST


On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:25:38AM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> @@ -582,9 +582,9 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_protection(struct mem_cgroup *root,
> /*
> * There is no reclaim protection applied to a targeted reclaim.
> * We are special casing this specific case here because
> - * mem_cgroup_protected calculation is not robust enough to keep
> - * the protection invariant for calculated effective values for
> - * parallel reclaimers with different reclaim target. This is
> + * mem_cgroup_calculate_protection calculation is not robust enough
> + * to keep the protection invariant for calculated effective values
> + * for parallel reclaimers with different reclaim target. This is
> * especially a problem for tail memcgs (as they have pages on LRU)
> * which would want to have effective values 0 for targeted reclaim
> * but a different value for external reclaim.

This reads a little awkwardly now. How about:

* We are special casing this specific case here because
- * mem_cgroup_protected calculation is not robust enough to keep
+ * mem_cgroup_calculate_protection is not robust enough to keep
* the protection invariant for calculated effective values for
* parallel reclaimers with different reclaim target. This is