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mm/vmscan: fix comment for isolate_lru_pages

Message ID 20220416025231.8082-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series mm/vmscan: fix comment for isolate_lru_pages | expand

Commit Message

Miaohe Lin April 16, 2022, 2:52 a.m. UTC 
Since commit 791b48b64232 ("mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible
pages"), splicing any skipped pages to the tail of the LRU list won't
put the system at risk of premature OOM but will waste lots of cpu
cycles. Correct the comment accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
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 mm/vmscan.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 6f96cf1eacb2..d75b6f94551c 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2152,8 +2152,8 @@  static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
 	 * Splice any skipped pages to the start of the LRU list. Note that
 	 * this disrupts the LRU order when reclaiming for lower zones but
 	 * we cannot splice to the tail. If we did then the SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
-	 * scanning would soon rescan the same pages to skip and put the
-	 * system at risk of premature OOM.
+	 * scanning would soon rescan the same pages to skip and waste lots
+	 * of cpu cycles.
 	 */
 	if (!list_empty(&pages_skipped)) {
 		int zid;