Re: [PATCH v10 06/14] mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation

[Yu Zhao]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:40 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:36:03 -0600 Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > or it is only something
> > > meaningful for the internal code?
> >
> > This is how swappiness is interpreted.
> >
> > > if so, can we rename it to
> > > something else? otherwise, it is quite confusing.
> >
> > Feel free to suggest something.
>
> It is confusing,   swap_preference?

It's still largely swappiness -- the original swappiness is twisted a
bit around the corners (0, 1 and 200) to make it more suitable for
internal use.

I vote for __swappiness or lrugen_swappiness, which look ugly to me
but it captures what this variable actually is, i.e., an overridden
version of the original swappiness. And similar for lru_gen_mm_walk
*walk vs mm_walk *walk.

In other languages where polymorphism is supported, there are
established naming conversions. In this patchset, I just used the same
variable name when two things are closely related but distinguishable
from the _contexts_ they are used.