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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: RFC:  Easy-Reclaimable LRU list
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:46:13 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE82555.2010704@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE012CD.6010605@kernel.org>

On 06/19/2012 09:49 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> Recently, there are some efforts to handle system memory pressure.
>
> 1) low memory notification - [1]
> 2) fallocate(VOLATILE) - [2]
> 3) fadvise(NOREUSE) - [3]
>
> For them, I would like to add new LRU list, aka "Ereclaimable" which is opposite of "unevictable".
> Reclaimable LRU list includes_easy_  reclaimable pages.
> For example, easy reclaimable pages are following as.
>
> 1. invalidated but remained LRU list.
> 2. pageout pages for reclaim(PG_reclaim pages)
> 3. fadvise(NOREUSE)
> 4. fallocate(VOLATILE)
>
> Their pages shouldn't stir normal LRU list and compaction might not migrate them, even.
What about other things moving memory like CMA ?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-25  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-19  5:49 RFC: Easy-Reclaimable LRU list Minchan Kim
2012-06-21 19:21 ` John Stultz
2012-06-22  6:57   ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-23  4:45     ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-23 15:53       ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-24 11:09         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-25  0:15       ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-25  8:46 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2012-06-26  0:12   ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-26  8:07     ` Glauber Costa
2012-06-25 10:24 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-26  0:26   ` Minchan Kim
2012-07-17 16:03   ` Zheng Liu

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