Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: multi-gen lru: fix stat count

[Huan Yang]

Hi Yu Zhao,

Thanks for your reply.

在 2023/10/19 0:21, Yu Zhao 写道:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 2:22 AM Huan Yang <link@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > For multi-gen lru reclaim in evict_folios, like shrink_inactive_list,
> > gather folios which isolate to reclaim, and invoke shirnk_folio_list.
> >
> > But, when complete shrink, it not gather shrink reclaim stat into sc,
> > we can't get info like nr_dirty\congested in reclaim, and then
> > control writeback, dirty number and mark as LRUVEC_CONGESTED, or
> > just bpf trace shrink and get correct sc stat.
> >
> > This patch fix this by simple copy code from shrink_inactive_list when
> > end of shrink list.
> MGLRU doesn't try to write back dirt file pages in the reclaim path --
> it filters them out in sort_folio() and leaves them to the page
Nice to know this,  sort_folio() filters some folio indeed.
But, I want to know, if we touch some folio in shrink_folio_list(), may some
folio become dirty or writeback even if sort_folio() filter then?
> writeback. (The page writeback is a dedicated component for this
> purpose). So there is nothing to fix.