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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@parallels.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 17:35:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111102163527.GK19965@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111102163056.GG19965@redhat.com>

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 05:30:56PM +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Tipping the balance for inactive list rotation has been there from the
> beginning, but I don't quite understand why.  It probably was not a
> problem as the conditions for inactive cycling applied to both file
> and anon equally, but with used-once detection for file and deferred
> file writeback from direct reclaim, we tend to cycle more file pages
> on the inactive list than anonymous ones.  Those rotated pages should
> be a signal to favor file reclaim, though.

[...] should NOT be a signal [...]

obviously.  Sorry.

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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@parallels.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 17:35:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111102163527.GK19965@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111102163056.GG19965@redhat.com>

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 05:30:56PM +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Tipping the balance for inactive list rotation has been there from the
> beginning, but I don't quite understand why.  It probably was not a
> problem as the conditions for inactive cycling applied to both file
> and anon equally, but with used-once detection for file and deferred
> file writeback from direct reclaim, we tend to cycle more file pages
> on the inactive list than anonymous ones.  Those rotated pages should
> be a signal to favor file reclaim, though.

[...] should NOT be a signal [...]

obviously.  Sorry.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-02 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-08 11:06 [PATCH 1/2] vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-08 11:06 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-08 11:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] vmscan: activate executable pages after first usage Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-08 11:07   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-08 23:58   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-08 23:58     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-09  0:02   ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-09  0:02     ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-09  0:04     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-09  0:04       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-09  0:26       ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-09  0:26         ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-09  1:23   ` Shaohua Li
2011-08-09  1:23     ` Shaohua Li
2011-08-08 11:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages Pekka Enberg
2011-08-08 11:37   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-08 12:18   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-08 12:18     ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-08 12:40     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-08 12:40       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-08 12:51       ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-08 12:51         ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-18  9:09     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-18  9:09       ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-02 16:30     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-02 16:30       ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-02 16:31       ` [rfc 1/3] mm: vmscan: never swap under low memory pressure Johannes Weiner
2011-11-02 16:31         ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-02 17:54         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-11-02 17:54           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-11-03 15:51           ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-03 15:51             ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-08  0:16             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-11-08  0:16               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-11-07  2:29         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-07  2:29           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-10 15:29           ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-10 15:29             ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-02 16:32       ` [rfc 2/3] mm: vmscan: treat inactive cycling as neutral Johannes Weiner
2011-11-02 16:32         ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-02 18:04         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-11-02 18:04           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-11-03 12:49           ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-03 12:49             ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-07  2:34         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-07  2:34           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-10 16:06           ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-10 16:06             ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-11  0:05             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-11  0:05               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-02 16:32       ` [rfc 3/3] mm: vmscan: revert file list boost on lru addition Johannes Weiner
2011-11-02 16:32         ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-07  2:45         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-07  2:45           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-10 16:12           ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-10 16:12             ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-02 16:35       ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2011-11-02 16:35         ` [PATCH 1/2] vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages Johannes Weiner
2011-08-08 23:36 ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-08 23:36   ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-08 23:51 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-08 23:51   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-10-31 20:12 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-31 20:12   ` Andrew Morton

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