Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm: workingset: separate shadow unpacking and refault calculation

From: Vladimir Davydov
Date: Wed Jan 27 2016 - 09:34:55 EST


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 04:00:04PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Per-cgroup thrash detection will need to derive a live memcg from the
> eviction cookie, and doing that inside unpack_shadow() will get nasty
> with the reference handling spread over two functions.
>
> In preparation, make unpack_shadow() clearly about extracting static
> data, and let workingset_refault() do all the higher-level handling.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>