Re: [RFC] respect the referenced bit of KVM guest pages?

[Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:05:19PM +0800, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> >> page_referenced_file?
> >> I think we should change page_referenced().
> >
> > Yeah, good catch.
> >
> >>
> >> Instead, How about this?
> >> ==============================================
> >>
> >> Subject: [PATCH] mm: stop circulating of referenced mlocked pages
> >>
> >> Currently, mlock() systemcall doesn't gurantee to mark the page PG_Mlocked
> >
> > A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A mark PG_mlocked
> >
> >> because some race prevent page grabbing.
> >> In that case, instead vmscan move the page to unevictable lru.
> >>
> >> However, Recently Wu Fengguang pointed out current vmscan logic isn't so
> >> efficient.
> >> mlocked page can move circulatly active and inactive list because
> >> vmscan check the page is referenced _before_ cull mlocked page.
> >>
> >> Plus, vmscan should mark PG_Mlocked when cull mlocked page.
> >
> > A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  PG_mlocked
> >
> >> Otherwise vm stastics show strange number.
> >>
> >> This patch does that.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> >> Index: b/mm/rmap.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- a/mm/rmap.c A  A  A  2009-08-18 19:48:14.000000000 +0900
> >> +++ b/mm/rmap.c A  A  A  2009-08-18 23:47:34.000000000 +0900
> >> @@ -362,7 +362,9 @@ static int page_referenced_one(struct pa
> >> A  A  A  A * unevictable list.
> >> A  A  A  A */
> >> A  A  A  if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) {
> >> - A  A  A  A  A  A  *mapcount = 1; A /* break early from loop */
> >> + A  A  A  A  A  A  *mapcount = 1; A  A  A  A  A /* break early from loop */
> >> + A  A  A  A  A  A  *vm_flags |= VM_LOCKED; /* for prevent to move active list */
> >
> >> + A  A  A  A  A  A  try_set_page_mlocked(vma, page);
> >
> > That call is not absolutely necessary?
> 
> Why? I haven't catch your point.

Because we'll eventually hit another try_set_page_mlocked() when
trying to unmap the page. Ie. duplicated with another call you added
in this patch.

Thanks,
Fengguang

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