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From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] swap: Add comments to lock_cluster_or_swap_info()
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 07:36:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180712233636.20629-2-ying.huang@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180712233636.20629-1-ying.huang@intel.com>

From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>

To improve the code readability.

Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
---
 mm/swapfile.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index d8fddfb000ec..e31aa601d9c0 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -297,6 +297,12 @@ static inline void unlock_cluster(struct swap_cluster_info *ci)
 		spin_unlock(&ci->lock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * At most times, fine grained cluster lock is sufficient to protect
+ * the operations on sis->swap_map.  No need to acquire gross grained
+ * sis->lock.  But cluster and cluster lock isn't available for HDD,
+ * so sis->lock will be instead for them.
+ */
 static inline struct swap_cluster_info *lock_cluster_or_swap_info(
 	struct swap_info_struct *si,
 	unsigned long offset)
-- 
2.16.4


  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-12 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-12 23:36 [PATCH 0/6] swap: THP optimizing refactoring Huang, Ying
2018-07-12 23:36 ` Huang, Ying [this message]
2018-07-13 10:48   ` [PATCH 1/6] swap: Add comments to lock_cluster_or_swap_info() Dave Hansen
2018-07-14  4:07     ` Huang, Ying
2018-07-12 23:36 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm/swapfile.c: Replace some #ifdef with IS_ENABLED() Huang, Ying
2018-07-13 18:38   ` Daniel Jordan
2018-07-13 18:55     ` Daniel Jordan
2018-07-12 23:36 ` [PATCH 3/6] swap: Unify normal/huge code path in swap_page_trans_huge_swapped() Huang, Ying
2018-07-13 20:15   ` Daniel Jordan
2018-07-14 12:53     ` Huang, Ying
2018-07-12 23:36 ` [PATCH 4/6] swap: Unify normal/huge code path in put_swap_page() Huang, Ying
2018-07-12 23:36 ` [PATCH 5/6] swap: Add __swap_entry_free_locked() Huang, Ying
2018-07-12 23:36 ` [PATCH 6/6] swap, put_swap_page: Share more between huge/normal code path Huang, Ying
2018-07-13 20:18   ` Daniel Jordan
2018-07-14 12:57     ` Huang, Ying

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