On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Naoya Horiguchi
<n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > +bool isolate_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *l)
>>
>> Can we replace the page parameter with p?
>
> Yes. Maybe it's strange to use the full name "page" for one parameter
> and an extremely shortened one "l" for another one.
>
Actually i mean the l arg could be replaced with something else ;)
>> > +
>> > +void putback_active_hugepage(struct page *page)
>> > +{
>> > + VM_BUG_ON(!PageHead(page));
>> > + spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
>> > + list_move_tail(&page->lru, &(page_hstate(page))->hugepage_activelist);
>> > + spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
>> > + put_page(page);
>> > +}
>> > +
>> > +void putback_active_hugepages(struct list_head *l)
>> > +{
>> > + struct page *page;
>> > + struct page *page2;
>> > +
>> > + list_for_each_entry_safe(page, page2, l, lru)
>> > + putback_active_hugepage(page);
>>
>> Can we acquire hugetlb_lock only once?
>
> I'm not sure which is the best. In general, fine-grained locking is
> preferred because other lock contenders wait less.
> Could you tell some specific reason to hold lock outside the loop?
>
No anything special, looks we can do list splice after taking lock,
then we no longer contend it.
>> > @@ -1025,7 +1029,11 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
>> > list_for_each_entry_safe(page, page2, from, lru) {
>> > cond_resched();
>> >
>> > - rc = unmap_and_move(get_new_page, private,
>> > + if (PageHuge(page))
>> > + rc = unmap_and_move_huge_page(get_new_page,
>> > + private, page, pass > 2, mode);
>> > + else
>> > + rc = unmap_and_move(get_new_page, private,
>> > page, pass > 2, mode);
>> >
>> Is this hunk unclean merge?
>
> Sorry, I don't catch the point. This patch is based on v3.11-rc1 and
> the present HEAD has no changes from that release.
> Or do you mean that other trees have some conflicts? (my brief checking
> on -mm/-next didn't find that...)
>
Looks this hunk should appear in 2/8 or later, as 1/8 is focusing
on hugepage->lru?
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