Re: [RFC] respect the referenced bit of KVM guest pages?

[Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 06:37:22AM +0800, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Dike, Jeffrey G wrote:
> > A side note - I've been doing some tracing and shrink_active_list
> > is called a humongous number of times (25000-ish during a ~90 kvm
> > run), with a net result of zero pages moved nearly all the time.

Your mean "no pages get deactivated at all in most invocations"?
This is possible in the steady (thrashing) state of a memory tight
system(the working set is bigger than memory size). 

> > Your test is rescuing essentially all candidate pages from the
> > inactive list.  Right now, I have the VM_EXEC || PageAnon version
> > of your test.
> 
> That is exactly why the the split LRU VM does an unconditional
> deactivation of active anon pages :)

In general it is :)  However in Jeff's small memory case, there
will be many refaults without the "PageAnon" protection. But the
patch does not imply that I'm happy with the "PageAnon" test ;)

Thanks,
Fengguang