From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>,
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] mm: Use find_get_swap_page in memcontrol
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:22:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200827142229.GB1002856@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200827125941.GG14765@casper.infradead.org>
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 01:59:41PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:20:02AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > The refactor makes sense to me, but the name is confusing. We're not
> > looking for a swap page, we're primarily looking for a file page in
> > the page cache mapping that's handed in. Only in the special case
> > where it's a shmem mapping and there is a swap entry do we consult the
> > auxiliary swap cache.
> >
> > How about find_get_page_or_swapcache()? find_get_page_shmemswap()?
> > Maybe you have a better idea. It's a fairly specialized operation that
> > isn't widely used, so a longer name isn't a bad thing IMO.
>
> Got it. find_get_incore_page(). I was going to go with inmem, but that
> it matches mincore sold me on it.
>
> /**
> * find_get_incore_page - Find and get a page from the page or swap caches.
> * @mapping: The address_space to search.
> * @index: The page cache index.
> *
> * This differs from find_get_page() in that it will also look for the
> * page in the swap cache.
> *
> * Return: The found page or %NULL.
> */
Nice work, that's perfect.
> I was focusing too much on what the function did, not why it was doing it.
Me too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-27 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-19 18:48 [PATCH 0/8] Return head pages from find_get_entry and find_lock_entry Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-19 18:48 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: Factor find_get_swap_page out of mincore_page Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-19 19:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-19 18:48 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: Use find_get_swap_page in memcontrol Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-26 14:20 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-08-26 14:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-26 16:26 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-08-27 12:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-27 14:22 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2020-08-19 18:48 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm: Optimise madvise WILLNEED Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-26 14:23 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-08-19 18:48 ` [PATCH 4/8] proc: Optimise smaps for shmem entries Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-26 14:24 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-08-19 18:48 ` [PATCH 5/8] i915: Use find_lock_page instead of find_lock_entry Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-26 14:27 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-08-19 18:48 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm: Convert find_get_entry to return the head page Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-26 15:09 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-08-26 15:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-19 18:48 ` [PATCH 7/8] mm: Return head page from find_lock_entry Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-19 18:48 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm: Hoist find_subpage call further up in pagecache_get_page Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-21 17:37 ` [PATCH 0/8] Return head pages from find_get_entry and find_lock_entry William Kucharski
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