Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/vmscan: remove misleading setting to sc->priority

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Jul 12 2021 - 04:05:35 EST


On Sat 10-07-21 18:03:26, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> The priority field of sc is used to control how many pages we should scan
> at once while we always traverse the list to shrink the pages in these
> functions. So these settings are unneeded and misleading.

I dunno. I agree that priority is not really used as these operate on
page lists but I am not sure this is worth touching.

> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 6483fe0e2065..fbe53e60b248 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1702,7 +1702,6 @@ unsigned int reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone *zone,
> {
> struct scan_control sc = {
> .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
> - .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
> .may_unmap = 1,
> };
> struct reclaim_stat stat;
> @@ -2327,7 +2326,6 @@ unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *page_list)
> unsigned int noreclaim_flag;
> struct scan_control sc = {
> .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
> - .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
> .may_writepage = 1,
> .may_unmap = 1,
> .may_swap = 1,
> --
> 2.23.0

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs