Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/mglru: improve readability of isolate_folios()

[Baolin Wang]

On 8/20/26 12:56 PM, Barry Song (Xiaomi) wrote:
> From: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The for_each_evictable_type() loop in isolate_folios()
> is misleading: it does not actually iterate over each
> evictable type. Instead, get_type_to_scan() selects the
> type to scan, while the iterator `i` merely bounds the
> number of attempts.
>
> Make the fallback behavior explicit in the code and remove the
> opaque for_each_evictable_type(i, swappiness).
>
> Signed-off-by: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Barry Song (Xiaomi) <baohua@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song (Xiaomi) <baohua@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>   mm/vmscan.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>   1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index c1404a59523d..d5cc30b667ad 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -4833,35 +4833,41 @@ static int get_type_to_scan(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness)
>   	return positive_ctrl_err(&sp, &pv);
>   }
>   
> +static inline bool is_single_type_reclaim(int swappiness)
> +{
> +	return swappiness == MIN_SWAPPINESS ||
> +	       swappiness == SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY;
> +}

I can't think of a better function name either, so I'm fine with it :)