Re: [RFC 02/15] slub: Add isolate() and migrate() methods

[Tobin C. Harding]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:22:37AM -0700, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 04:15:46PM +0000, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 03:14:13PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
> > > > index f9d89c1b5977..754acdb292e4 100644
> > > > --- a/mm/slab_common.c
> > > > +++ b/mm/slab_common.c
> > > > @@ -298,6 +298,10 @@ int slab_unmergeable(struct kmem_cache *s)
> > > >  	if (!is_root_cache(s))
> > > >  		return 1;
> > > >
> > > > +	/*
> > > > +	 * s->isolate and s->migrate imply s->ctor so no need to
> > > > +	 * check them explicitly.
> > > > +	 */
> > >
> > > Shouldn't this implication go the other way, i.e.
> > >     s->ctor => s->isolate & s->migrate
> > 
> > A cache can have a constructor but the object may not be movable (I.e.
> > currently dentries and inodes).
> 
> Yep, thanks. Somehow I got confused by the comment.

I removed code here from the original RFC-v2, if this comment is
confusing perhaps we are better off without it.

thanks,
Tobin.