[Question] Why PageReadahead is not migrated by migration code?
From: Yang Shi
Date: Thu Feb 13 2020 - 12:07:18 EST
Hi folks,
Recently we saw some PageReadahead related bugs, so I did a quick check
about the use of PageReadahead. I just found the state is *not* migrated
by migrate_page_states().
Since migrate_page() won't migrate writeback page, so if PageReadahead
is set it should just mean PG_readahead rather than PG_reclaim. So, I
didn't think of why it is not migrated.
I dig into the history a little bit, but the change in migration code is
too overwhelming. But, it looks PG_readahead was added after migration
was introduced. Is it just a simple omission?
Thanks,
Yang