Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm/swapfile.c: compare tmp and max after trying to iterate on swap_map
From: Wei Yang
Date: Mon Apr 20 2020 - 17:37:34 EST
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 09:03:43AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
>Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> There are two duplicate code to handle the case when there is no
>> available swap entry. Just let the code go through and do the check at
>> second place.
>>
>> No functional change is expected.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/swapfile.c | 4 ----
>> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
>> index 3aae700f9931..07b0bc095411 100644
>> --- a/mm/swapfile.c
>> +++ b/mm/swapfile.c
>> @@ -629,10 +629,6 @@ static bool scan_swap_map_try_ssd_cluster(struct swap_info_struct *si,
>> tmp = cluster->next;
>> max = min_t(unsigned long, si->max,
>> (cluster_next(&cluster->index) + 1) * SWAPFILE_CLUSTER);
>> - if (tmp >= max) {
>> - cluster_set_null(&cluster->index);
>> - goto new_cluster;
>> - }
>
>The code is to avoid to acquire the cluster lock unnecessarily. So I think
>we should keep this.
>
If you really want to avoid the lock, my suggestion is to add:
if (tmp < max) {
ci = lock_cluster(si, tmp);
while (tmp < max) {
...
}
unlock_cluster(ci);
}
Instead of do the similar thing twice.
>Best Regards,
>Huang, Ying
>
>> ci = lock_cluster(si, tmp);
>> while (tmp < max) {
>> if (!si->swap_map[tmp])
--
Wei Yang
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