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| author | Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> | 2022-05-19 23:08:52 +0200 |
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| committer | akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-05-19 23:08:52 +0200 |
| commit | ff351f4bb9606a6c9a1f3fcdd918635b51514779 (patch) | |
| tree | a31b5bd15f9b3a2112eeedafb2f279e88390d7a0 /mm/swapfile.c | |
| parent | mm/swap: fix the comment of get_kernel_pages (diff) | |
| download | linux-ff351f4bb9606a6c9a1f3fcdd918635b51514779.tar.xz linux-ff351f4bb9606a6c9a1f3fcdd918635b51514779.zip | |
mm/swap: fix comment about swap extent
Since commit 4efaceb1c5f8 ("mm, swap: use rbtree for swap_extent"), rbtree
is used for swap extent. Also curr_swap_extent is removed at that time.
Update the corresponding comment.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220509131416.17553-16-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/swapfile.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/swapfile.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 0535afc897ab..a0eb690d9926 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -2208,8 +2208,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_swap_extent); /* * A `swap extent' is a simple thing which maps a contiguous range of pages - * onto a contiguous range of disk blocks. An ordered list of swap extents - * is built at swapon time and is then used at swap_writepage/swap_readpage + * onto a contiguous range of disk blocks. A rbtree of swap extents is + * built at swapon time and is then used at swap_writepage/swap_readpage * time for locating where on disk a page belongs. * * If the swapfile is an S_ISBLK block device, a single extent is installed. @@ -2217,12 +2217,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_swap_extent); * swap files identically. * * Whether the swapdev is an S_ISREG file or an S_ISBLK blockdev, the swap - * extent list operates in PAGE_SIZE disk blocks. Both S_ISREG and S_ISBLK + * extent rbtree operates in PAGE_SIZE disk blocks. Both S_ISREG and S_ISBLK * swapfiles are handled *identically* after swapon time. * * For S_ISREG swapfiles, setup_swap_extents() will walk all the file's blocks - * and will parse them into an ordered extent list, in PAGE_SIZE chunks. If - * some stray blocks are found which do not fall within the PAGE_SIZE alignment + * and will parse them into a rbtree, in PAGE_SIZE chunks. If some stray + * blocks are found which do not fall within the PAGE_SIZE alignment * requirements, they are simply tossed out - we will never use those blocks * for swapping. * @@ -2231,10 +2231,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_swap_extent); * * The amount of disk space which a single swap extent represents varies. * Typically it is in the 1-4 megabyte range. So we can have hundreds of - * extents in the list. To avoid much list walking, we cache the previous - * search location in `curr_swap_extent', and start new searches from there. - * This is extremely effective. The average number of iterations in - * map_swap_page() has been measured at about 0.3 per page. - akpm. + * extents in the rbtree. - akpm. */ static int setup_swap_extents(struct swap_info_struct *sis, sector_t *span) { |