Re: [PATCH v2] mm/compactoin: Fix misbehaviors of fast_find_migrateblock()

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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)




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