Re: [PATCH 06/24] swap: rework swapin_no_readahead arguments

From: Kairui Song
Date: Thu Nov 23 2023 - 05:51:37 EST


Chris Li <chrisl@xxxxxxxxxx> 于2023年11月21日周二 14:44写道:
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> On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 11:48 AM Kairui Song <ryncsn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Make it use alloc_pages_mpol instead of vma_alloc_folio, and accept
> > mm_struct directly as an argument instead of taking a vmf as argument.
> > Make its arguments similar to swap_{cluster,vma}_readahead, to
> > make the code more aligned.
>
> It is unclear to me what is the value of making the
> swap_{cluster,vma}_readahead more aligned here.
>
> > Also prepare for following commits which will skip vmf for certain
> > swapin paths.
>
> The following patch 07/24 does not seem to use this patch.
> Can it merge with the other patch that uses it?
>
> As it is, this patch does not serve a stand alone value to justify it.

Yes, I'll rearrange this.