Re: [PATCH] mm: evict streaming IO cache first

Hugh Dickins
2008-11-16T21:31:23Z

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> I wonder if the "do not do mark_page_accessed at page fault time"
> patch is triggering the current troublesome behaviour in the VM,
> because actively used file pages are not moved out of the way of
> the VM - which leads get_scan_ratio to believe that we are already
> hitting the working set on the file side and should also start
> scanning the anon LRUs.

That patch is only in the -mm tree, not in 2.6.28-rc.

Hugh