Re: [PATCH] mm: delete stale comment about cachelines
From: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
Date: Mon Jun 01 2026 - 08:54:00 EST
On 6/1/26 13:40, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> These comments have been wrong since commit a211c6550efc ("mm:
> page_alloc: defrag_mode kswapd/kcompactd watermarks") added
> NR_FREE_PAGES_BLOCKS. Since nobody has complained about it in the last
> year, it seems unlikely these comments were particularly useful anyway,
> so delete them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index 1331a7b93f33c..e308f5ac7950a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -214,7 +214,6 @@ enum numa_stat_item {
> #endif
>
> enum zone_stat_item {
> - /* First 128 byte cacheline (assuming 64 bit words) */
> NR_FREE_PAGES,
> NR_FREE_PAGES_BLOCKS,
> NR_ZONE_LRU_BASE, /* Used only for compaction and reclaim retry */
> @@ -225,7 +224,6 @@ enum zone_stat_item {
> NR_ZONE_UNEVICTABLE,
> NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING, /* Count of dirty, writeback and unstable pages */
> NR_MLOCK, /* mlock()ed pages found and moved off LRU */
> - /* Second 128 byte cacheline */
> #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZSMALLOC)
> NR_ZSPAGES, /* allocated in zsmalloc */
> #endif
>
> ---
> base-commit: 4aedd91eef75addec6eb2702aa0d94625d01458d
> change-id: 20260601-zone_stat_item-comment-45d660892420
>
> Best regards,