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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH mmotm] vmscan move pgdeactivate modification to shrink_active_list fix
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:32:36 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f11576a0908290832l7ec0c88dl14431e8a2e1d1189@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090829122217.GA17448@cmpxchg.org>

2009/8/29 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:00:47PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>> Hi Hugh
>>
>> 2009/8/29 Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>:
>> > mmotm 2009-08-27-16-51 lets the OOM killer loose on my loads even
>> > quicker than last time: one bug fixed but another bug introduced.
>> > vmscan-move-pgdeactivate-modification-to-shrink_active_list.patch
>> > forgot to add NR_LRU_BASE to lru index to make zone_page_state index.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
>>
>> Can I use your test case?
>> Currently LRU_BASE is 0. it mean
>>
>> LRU_BASE == NR_INACTIVE_ANON == 0
>> LRU_ACTIVE == NR_ACTIVE_ANON == 1
>
> The zone counters are
>
>        NR_FREE_PAGES = 0
>        NR_INACTIVE_ANON = NR_LRU_BASE = 1
>        NR_ACTIVE_ANON = 2
>        ...,
>
> and NR_LRU_BASE is the offset of the LRU items within the zone stat
> items.  You missed this offset, so accounting to LRU_BASE + 0 *
> LRU_FILE actually accounts to NR_FREE_PAGES, not to NR_INACTIVE_ANON.

/me slapt self. thank you correct me ;)


> I get the feeling we should make this thing more robust...

I agree your perfectly.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-29 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-28 19:39 [PATCH mmotm] vmscan move pgdeactivate modification to shrink_active_list fix Hugh Dickins
2009-08-28 21:21 ` Rik van Riel
2009-08-28 22:38 ` Minchan Kim
2009-08-29 10:00 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-08-29 12:22   ` Johannes Weiner
2009-08-29 15:32     ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2009-09-02  0:57 ` [PATCH mmotm] vmscan move pgdeactivate modification to shrink_active_list fix2 Hugh Dickins
2009-09-02  1:30   ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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