From: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
To: vbabka@suse.cz, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
rppt@kernel.org, yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next v2] mm: workingset: update description of the source file
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:31:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230421113130.240586-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ddb50f0-2e2d-e750-3867-3842a3ea12cc@suse.cz>
> I'm late but FWIW, not supper happy that while the updated calculations are
> now accurate wrt the actual code, the explanation (which was written at the
> time of page cache-only workinset) was more easier to follow in the simpler
> form. Now it's still mostly talking about page cache and explaining the
>balance between its active and inactive list only, and then suddenly the
> anon lists appear out of nowhere in the final equations.
Thanks for your reviewing! I should update the whole parts. Sorry for
hadn't do it better, please drop the patch, I will try to submit patchv3
to fix this.
> In other words, I think it would have been better to leave that explanation
> as it was, and then add a new part describing the extension to anon pages.
I read the description of the source file again carefully, and think that
there is no need to creat a new part, if we explain at the begining that
the word 'pages' include page cache and anonymous page, and do some minor
adjustments. For example:
Per node, two kinds of clock lists are maintained for pages..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-21 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-13 8:34 yang.yang29
2023-04-21 9:59 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-04-21 11:31 ` Yang Yang [this message]
2023-04-24 14:21 ` Vlastimil Babka
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