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

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Sun Jul 23 2023 - 22:31:16 EST


On 2023/7/24 4:37, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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

Sounds better. Will do it in v2.

Thanks.