Re: [PATCH 08/10] vmscan: Add check_move_unevictable_folios()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jun 08 2022 - 23:56:24 EST


On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 05:32:34PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 01:07:32AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 05, 2022 at 08:38:52PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > > Change the guts of check_move_unevictable_pages() over to use folios
> > > and add check_move_unevictable_pages() as a wrapper.
> >
> > The changes here look fine, but please also add patches for converting
> > the two callers (which looks mostly trivial to me).
>
> I do want to get rid of pagevecs entirely, but that conversion isn't
> going to happen in time for the next merge window. for_each_sgt_page()
> is a little intimidating.

for_each_sgt_page, just like other creative scatterlist abuse in the gpu
code is a beast. But, instead of doing a for_each_sgt_page to add
pages to the pagevec and then do a loop over the pagevec to add to
the folio batch it should be pretty trivial to just cut out the
middle man.