From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
dhowells@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
peterz@infradead.org, Enrik.Berkhan@ge.com,
uclinux-dev@uclinux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: Pages allocated to a ramfs inode's pagecache may get wrongly discarded
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:11:53 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28c262360903111911l4e14685emb0261fe649bc03fa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090312105622.43A6.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:00 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> Hi, Kosaki-san.
>>
>> I think ramfs pages's unevictablility should not depend on CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU.
>> It would be better to remove dependency of CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU ?
>>
>> How about this ?
>> It's just RFC. It's not tested.
>>
>> That's because we can't reclaim that pages regardless of whether there is unevictable list or not
>
> maybe, your patch work.
>
> but we can remove CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU build option itself completely
> after nommu folks confirmed CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU works well on their machine
>
> it is more cleaner IMHO.
> What do you think?
>
>
I agree your opinion, totally
Let us wait nommu folks's comments.
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Minchan Kim
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-03-11 22:03 ` [PATCH] NOMMU: Pages allocated to a ramfs inode's pagecache may get wrongly discarded Andrew Morton
2009-03-11 22:36 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-03-12 0:02 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-12 0:35 ` Minchan Kim
2009-03-12 1:04 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-12 1:52 ` Minchan Kim
2009-03-12 1:56 ` Minchan Kim
2009-03-12 2:00 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-12 2:11 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2009-03-12 12:19 ` Robin Getz
2009-03-12 17:55 ` [uClinux-dev] " Jamie Lokier
2009-03-13 17:33 ` [PATCH 0/2] Make the Unevictable LRU available on NOMMU David Howells
2009-03-13 17:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] NOMMU: There is no mlock() for NOMMU, so don't provide the bits David Howells
2009-03-14 11:17 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-13 17:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] NOMMU: Make CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU available when CONFIG_MMU=n David Howells
2009-03-14 11:17 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-14 0:27 ` [PATCH 0/2] Make the Unevictable LRU available on NOMMU Minchan Kim
2009-03-20 16:08 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-03-20 16:24 ` David Howells
2009-03-20 18:30 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-03-21 10:20 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-03-22 20:13 ` [patch 1/3] mm: decouple unevictable lru from mmu Johannes Weiner
2009-03-22 23:46 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-23 0:14 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-03-23 10:48 ` David Howells
2009-03-22 20:13 ` [patch 2/3] ramfs-nommu: use generic lru cache Johannes Weiner
2009-03-23 2:22 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-22 20:13 ` [patch 3/3] mm: keep pages from unevictable mappings off the LRU lists Johannes Weiner
2009-03-23 0:44 ` Minchan Kim
2009-03-23 2:21 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-23 8:42 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-03-23 9:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-23 9:23 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-26 0:48 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-03-23 10:40 ` [patch 2/3] ramfs-nommu: use generic lru cache David Howells
2009-03-23 10:53 ` [patch 3/3] mm: keep pages from unevictable mappings off the LRU lists David Howells
2009-03-26 0:01 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-03-26 8:56 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-26 10:36 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-03-23 20:07 ` [PATCH 0/2] Make the Unevictable LRU available on NOMMU Lee Schermerhorn
2009-03-13 11:53 ` [PATCH] NOMMU: Pages allocated to a ramfs inode's pagecache may get wrongly discarded David Howells
2009-03-13 22:49 ` Johannes Weiner
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