Re: [PATCH mm-new v6 2/5] mm: khugepaged: refine scan progress number

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 2/5/26 15:30, Dev Jain wrote:
> On 05/02/26 7:55 pm, Dev Jain wrote:
> > On 05/02/26 5:41 pm, David Hildenbrand (arm) wrote:
> > > Yes!
> > >
> > > Why do we even have to optimize this? :)
> > >
> > > Premature ... ? :)
> >
> > I mean .... we don't, but the alternate is a one liner using max().
> >
> > The objective is to compute the number of iterations of the for-loop.
> >
> > It just seems weird to me to track that in the loop, when we have the
> >
> > loop iterator, which *literally* does that only.
>
> I realize I shouldn't have bolded out the "literally" - below I wrote that
> I won't shout, but the bold seems like shouting :)

Heh.

The thing is that the loop iterator does not quite what we want, 
otherwise we wouldn't have to mess with max() etc.

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Cheers,

David