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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] mm/vmscan: remove unneeded can_split_huge_page
 check
From:   "ying.huang@intel.com" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc:     songmuchun@bytedance.com, hch@infradead.org, willy@infradead.org,
        linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:52:30 +0800
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On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 17:34 +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> We don't need to check can_split_folio() because folio_maybe_dma_pinned()
> is checked before. It will avoid the long term pinned pages to be swapped
> out. And we can live with short term pinned pages. Without can_split_folio
> checking we can simplify the code. Also activate_locked can be changed to
> keep_locked as it's just short term pinning.
> 
> Suggested-by: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>

Look good to me.  Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 22 ++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 4a76be47bed1..01f5db75a507 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1711,20 +1711,14 @@ static unsigned int shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
>  					goto keep_locked;
>  				if (folio_maybe_dma_pinned(folio))
>  					goto keep_locked;
> -				if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
> -					/* cannot split THP, skip it */
> -					if (!can_split_folio(folio, NULL))
> -						goto activate_locked;
> -					/*
> -					 * Split pages without a PMD map right
> -					 * away. Chances are some or all of the
> -					 * tail pages can be freed without IO.
> -					 */
> -					if (!folio_entire_mapcount(folio) &&
> -					    split_folio_to_list(folio,
> -								page_list))
> -						goto activate_locked;
> -				}
> +				/*
> +				 * Split pages without a PMD map right
> +				 * away. Chances are some or all of the
> +				 * tail pages can be freed without IO.
> +				 */
> +				if (PageTransHuge(page) && !folio_entire_mapcount(folio) &&
> +				    split_folio_to_list(folio, page_list))
> +					goto keep_locked;
>  				if (!add_to_swap(page)) {
>  					if (!PageTransHuge(page))
>  						goto activate_locked_split;