On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:47:39PM +0800, Chen Yucong wrote: > Hi all, > > On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 13:58 +0800, Chen Yucong wrote: > > shrink_page_list() has too many arguments that have already reached ten. > > Some of those arguments and temporary variables introduces extra 80 bytes > > on the stack. This patch wraps five parameters into writeback_stats and > > removes > > some temporary variables, thus making the relative functions to consume > > fewer > > stack space. > > > I this message, I have renamed shrink_result to writeback_stats > according to Johannes Weiner's reply. Think carefully, this change is > too hasty. Although it now just contains statistics on the writeback > states of the scanned pages, it may also be used for gathering other > information at some point in the future. So I think shrink_result is a > little bit better!
Then we can always rename it "at some point in the future", the name is not set in stone. At this time, it only contains writeback stats, and I think it should be named accordingly. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
