From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm v9 7/8] proc: export idle flag via kpageflags Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:35:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20150721163500.528bd39bbbc71abc3c8d429b@linux-foundation.org> References: <4c1eb396150ee14d7c3abf1a6f36ec8cc9dd9435.1437303956.git.vdavydov@parallels.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4c1eb396150ee14d7c3abf1a6f36ec8cc9dd9435.1437303956.git.vdavydov@parallels.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla , Minchan Kim , Raghavendra K T , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Greg Thelen , Michel Lespinasse , David Rientjes , Pavel Emelyanov , Cyrill Gorcunov , Jonathan Corbet , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:31:16 +0300 Vladimir Davydov wrote: > As noted by Minchan, a benefit of reading idle flag from > /proc/kpageflags is that one can easily filter dirty and/or unevictable > pages while estimating the size of unused memory. > > Note that idle flag read from /proc/kpageflags may be stale in case the > page was accessed via a PTE, because it would be too costly to iterate > over all page mappings on each /proc/kpageflags read to provide an > up-to-date value. To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read > /proc/kpageidle first. Is there any value in teaching the regular old page scanner to update these flags? If it's doing an rmap scan anyway... -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org