On 1/28/21 2:50 PM, Wonhyuk Yang wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:25 PM Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> As nr_scanned is post-incremented, this will still consider if the page >> should be used when the limit is reached. ++nr_scanned? > > Hi, > > Let's consider that limit is 4, nr_scanned is 0 and loop until reach the limit. > 1) pre-increment: it will search three times.(0,1,2) > 2) post-increment: it will search four times. (0,1,2,3) > > So you mean that searching three times is correct? 1) will match the outer loop's "nr_scanned < limit;" condition. It doesn't matter that much in practice, but for consistency sake, it should be 1)