Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Disk integrity in QEMU

[Izik Eidus <izik@qumranet.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> LRU typically makes fairly bad decisions since it throws most of the
> information it has away.  I recommend looking up LRU-K and similar
> algorithms, just to get a feel for this; it is basically the simplest
> possible algorithm short of random selection.
>
> Note that Linux doesn't even have an LRU; it has to approximate since it
> can't sample all of the pages all of the time.  With a hypervisor that
> uses Intel's EPT, it's even worse since we don't have an accessed bit.
> On silly benchmarks that just exercise the disk and touch no memory, and
> if you tune the host very aggresively, LRU will win on long running
> guests since it will eventually page out all unused guest memory (with
> Linux guests, it will never even page guest memory in).  On real life
> applications I don't think there is much chance.
>
>   
But when using O_DIRECT you actuality make the pages not swappable at all...
or am i wrong?
maybe somekind of combination with the mm shrink could be good,
do_try_to_free_pages is good point for reference.