Re: [patch 9/9] mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check

[Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>]

Hi Johannes,

On 01/11/2014 02:10 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Previously, page cache radix tree nodes were freed after reclaim
> emptied out their page pointers.  But now reclaim stores shadow
> entries in their place, which are only reclaimed when the inodes
> themselves are reclaimed.  This is problematic for bigger files that
> are still in use after they have a significant amount of their cache
> reclaimed, without any of those pages actually refaulting.  The shadow
> entries will just sit there and waste memory.  In the worst case, the
> shadow entries will accumulate until the machine runs out of memory.
> 

I have one more question. It seems that other algorithm only remember
history information of a limit number of evicted pages where the number
is usually the same as the total cache or memory size.
But in your patch, I didn't see a preferred value that how many evicted
pages' history information should be recorded. It all depends on the
workingset_shadow_shrinker?

Thanks,
-Bob

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