Re: [PATCH] remove duplicating priority setting in try_to_free_p

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 04:01:07 EST


On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:43:56 +0900 "minchan kim" <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I think this is actually a bugfix. The code you're removing doesn't do the
> >
> > if (priority < zone->prev_priority)
> >
> > thing.
> >
>
> shrink_zones() in try_to_free_pages() already called
> note_zone_scanning_priority().
> So, it have done it.

note_zone_scanning_priority() will only permit ->prev_priority to logically
increase, whereas the code which you've removed will also permit
->prev_priority to logically decrease. So I don't see that they are
equivalent?

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