On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:05:52AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 03:41:30PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT
> > mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async
> > compaction maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to
> > MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. For other migrate_pages users such as memory
> > hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is used.
> >
> > This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time,
> > particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be
> > a large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not
> > support ->writepages.
> >
> > [aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work]
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
Thanks.
> > <SNIP>
> > diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> > index 10b9883..6b80537 100644
> > --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> > @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ static int hugetlbfs_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
> >
> > static int hugetlbfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping,
> > struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
> > - bool sync)
> > + enum migrate_mode mode)
>
> Nitpick, except this one, we use enum migrate_mode sync.
>
Actually, in all the core code, I used "mode" but I was inconsistent in
the headers and some of the filesystems. I should have converted all use
of "sync" which was a boolean to a mode which has three possible values
after this patch.
==== CUT HERE ====
mm: compaction: Introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction fix
Consistently name enum migrate_mode parameters "mode" instead of "sync".
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +-
fs/nfs/write.c | 2 +-
include/linux/migrate.h | 8 ++++----
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index dbe9518..ff45cdf 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ static int btree_submit_bio_hook(struct inode *inode, int rw, struct bio *bio,
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
static int btree_migratepage(struct address_space *mapping,
struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
- enum migrate_mode sync)
+ enum migrate_mode mode)
{
/*
* we can't safely write a btree page from here,
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index adb87d9..1f4f18f9 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -1711,7 +1711,7 @@ out_error:
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage,
- struct page *page, enum migrate_mode sync)
+ struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode)
{
/*
* If PagePrivate is set, then the page is currently associated with
diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
index 775787c..eaf8674 100644
--- a/include/linux/migrate.h
+++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ extern int migrate_page(struct address_space *,
struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode);
extern int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
unsigned long private, bool offlining,
- enum migrate_mode sync);
+ enum migrate_mode mode);
extern int migrate_huge_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
unsigned long private, bool offlining,
- enum migrate_mode sync);
+ enum migrate_mode mode);
extern int fail_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
struct page *, struct page *);
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ extern int migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
static inline void putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l) {}
static inline int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
unsigned long private, bool offlining,
- enum migrate_mode sync) { return -ENOSYS; }
+ enum migrate_mode mode) { return -ENOSYS; }
static inline int migrate_huge_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
unsigned long private, bool offlining,
- enum migrate_mode sync) { return -ENOSYS; }
+ enum migrate_mode mode) { return -ENOSYS; }
static inline int migrate_prep(void) { return -ENOSYS; }
static inline int migrate_prep_local(void) { return -ENOSYS; }
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