On Tue 26-03-13 01:13:10, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 02:04:16PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Fri 22-03-13 16:23:50, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: [...] > > > @@ -1012,14 +1040,8 @@ static int migrate_to_node(struct mm_struct *mm, int source, int dest, > > > check_range(mm, mm->mmap->vm_start, mm->task_size, &nmask, > > > flags | MPOL_MF_DISCONTIG_OK, &pagelist); > > > > > > - if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) { > > > - err = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_node_page, dest, > > > + return migrate_movable_pages(&pagelist, new_node_page, dest, > > > MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_SYSCALL); > > > - if (err) > > > - putback_lru_pages(&pagelist); > > > - } > > > - > > > - return err; > > > > This is really confusing. Why migrate_pages doesn't do putback cleanup > > on its own but migrate_movable_pages does? > > I consider migrate_movable_pages() as a wrapper of migrate_pages(), > not the variant of migrate_pages(). The naming suggests that this is the same functionality for a "different" type of pages. > We can find the same pattern in the callers like > > if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) { > err = migrate_pages(...); > if (err) > putback_lru_pages(&pagelist); > } > > , so it can be simplified by migrate_movable_pages(). I would rather see the same pattern for both. It could be error prone if -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>