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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: Matthias Wirth <matthias.wirth@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Senger <lukas@fridolin.com>,
	i4passt@lists.cs.fau.de,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
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	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
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	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] mm: implement POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:14:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140318151448.GB8051@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394812370-13454-1-git-send-email-matthias.wirth@gmail.com>

On Fri 14-03-14 16:52:38, Matthias Wirth wrote:
[...]
> The idea of the patch is to add pages from files with FMODE_NOREUSE at
> the tail of the lru list. Therefore these pages are the first to be
> reclaimed. We added add_to_page_cache_lru_tail and corresponding
> functions, complementing add_to_page_cache_lru.

If this is set before the read then you can end up trashing on those
pages during heavy memory pressure I am afraid. Page would get reclaimed
before the read gets to it.

What you could do instead, I think, is to reclaim pages belonging to
a FMODE_NOREUSE file away when they would be activated normally during
reclaim. That would require tweaking page_check_references which
implements used-once logic currently.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-03-18 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-11 10:25 [PATCH] mm: implement POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE Matthias Wirth
2014-03-11 14:06 ` Michal Hocko
2014-03-11 15:24   ` Dave Hansen
2014-03-11 21:27     ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-12 11:59       ` Lukas Senger
2014-03-12 14:46         ` Michal Hocko
2014-03-12 16:05         ` Dave Hansen
2014-03-13 12:40           ` Lukas Senger
2014-03-13 18:43 ` [PATCHv2] " Matthias Wirth
2014-03-13 20:01   ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-14 12:34     ` Lukas Senger
2014-03-14 15:52 ` [PATCHv3] " Matthias Wirth
2014-03-18 15:14   ` Michal Hocko [this message]

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