From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan.c:shrink_list(): check PageSwapCache() after add_to_swap()
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:44:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040128134425.0c00fb2f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16407.59031.17836.961587@laputa.namesys.com>
Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> shrink_list() checks PageSwapCache() before calling add_to_swap(), this
> means that anonymous page that is going to be added to the swap right
> now these checks return false and:
>
> (*) it will be unaccounted for in nr_mapped, and
>
> (*) it won't be written to the swap if gfp_flags include __GFP_IO but
> not __GFP_FS.
>
> (Both will happen only on the next round of scanning.)
OK. Does it make a measurable change in any benchmarks?
> Patch below just moves may_enter_fs initialization down. I am not sure
> about (*nr_mapped) increase though.
nr_mapped seems OK.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-28 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-28 16:43 [PATCH] mm/vmscan.c:shrink_list(): check PageSwapCache() after add_to_swap() Nikita Danilov
2004-01-28 21:44 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-30 2:53 ` [BENCHMARKS] 2.6 kbuild results (with add_to_swap patch) Nick Piggin
2004-01-30 12:04 ` Rik van Riel
2004-01-31 1:19 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-31 1:29 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-31 1:34 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-04 5:11 ` Nick Piggin
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