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>> > IIUC, # of pages to be scanned is just determined once, here.
>>
>> In this case, lockless is right behavior.
>> lockless is valuable than precise ZSTAT. end user can't observe this race.
>>
>
> Lockless works fine provided the data is correctly aligned. I need to
> check this out more thoroghly.

Thanks a lot :)