Re: [PATCH v2 17/46] mm/memcg: Convert mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() to folio

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jun 28 2021 - 02:27:04 EST


On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:37:47PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 10:21:26AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Looks good,
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> >
> > Although I wish we could come up with a shorter name for
> > mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath somehow..
>
> It is quite grotesque!
>
> How about folio_track_foreign_writeback() as a replacement name for
> mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() and have it call
> __folio_track_foreign_writeback()?
>
> Although 'foreign' tends to be used in MM to mean "wrong NUMA node",
> so maybe that's misleading. folio_track_dirty_cgroup()?
> folio_mark_dirty_cgroup()? (the last to be read in context of
> __set_page_dirty() being renamed to __folio_mark_dirty())

That all sounds reasonable to me, hopefully someone more attached to
this code can pick one.