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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rsync@lists.samba.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: fadvise DONTNEED implementation (or lack thereof)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:22:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE40129.9060103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=6RtPDnZZa=jrcciB1zHQMiB3LnouBw3G2OyaK@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/17/2010 05:16 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:

> Absolutely. But how about rsync's two touch?
> It can evict working set.
>
> I need the time for investigation.
> Thanks for the comment.

Maybe we could exempt MADV_SEQUENTIAL and FADV_SEQUENTIAL
touches from promoting the page to the active list?

Then we just need to make sure rsync uses fadvise properly
to keep the working set protected from rsync.

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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rsync@lists.samba.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: fadvise DONTNEED implementation (or lack thereof)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:22:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE40129.9060103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=6RtPDnZZa=jrcciB1zHQMiB3LnouBw3G2OyaK@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/17/2010 05:16 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:

> Absolutely. But how about rsync's two touch?
> It can evict working set.
>
> I need the time for investigation.
> Thanks for the comment.

Maybe we could exempt MADV_SEQUENTIAL and FADV_SEQUENTIAL
touches from promoting the page to the active list?

Then we just need to make sure rsync uses fadvise properly
to keep the working set protected from rsync.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-04  5:58 fadvise DONTNEED implementation (or lack thereof) Ben Gamari
2010-11-04  5:58 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-06 16:23 ` Wayne Davison
2010-11-09  7:28 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-09  7:28   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-09  8:03   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-09  8:03     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-09 12:54   ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-09 12:54     ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-14  5:09     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-14  5:09       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-14  5:20       ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-14  5:20         ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-14 21:33         ` Brian K. White
2010-11-14 21:33           ` Brian K. White
2010-11-15  6:07       ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-15  6:07         ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-15  7:09         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-15  7:09           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-15  7:19           ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-15  7:19             ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-15  7:28             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-15  7:28               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-15  7:46               ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-15  7:46                 ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-15 12:46               ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-15 12:46                 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-15  8:47         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15  8:47           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15  9:05           ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-15  9:05             ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-15 14:48             ` Rik van Riel
2010-11-15 14:48               ` Rik van Riel
2010-11-17 10:16               ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-17 10:16                 ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-17 11:15                 ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-17 11:15                   ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-17 16:22                 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-11-17 16:22                   ` Rik van Riel
2010-11-18  2:47                   ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-18  2:47                     ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-18  3:24                     ` Rik van Riel
2010-11-18  3:24                       ` Rik van Riel
2010-11-18  3:46                       ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-18  3:46                         ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-15  9:10           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-15  9:10             ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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