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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>,
	Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>,
	Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>,
	Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: add vma_has_locality()
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:29:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221222122937.06b9e9f3765e287b91b14954@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOUHufZpbfTCeqteEZt5k-kFZh3-++Gm0Wnc0-O=RFT-K9kzkw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:44:35 -0700 Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 11:49 AM Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:13:40 -0800 Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
> 
> This works; suggested-by probably works even better, since I didn't do
> the follow-up work.
> 
> > > Currently in vm_flags in vm_area_struct, both VM_SEQ_READ and
> > > VM_RAND_READ indicate a lack of locality in accesses to the vma. Some
> > > places that check for locality are missing one of them. We add
> > > vma_has_locality to replace the existing locality checks for clarity.
> >
> > I'm all confused.  Surely VM_SEQ_READ implies locality and VM_RAND_READ
> > indicates no-locality?
> 
> Spatially, yes. But we focus more on the temporal criteria here, i.e.,
> the reuse of an area within a relatively small duration. Both the
> active/inactive LRU and MGLRU rely on this.

Oh.  Why didn't it say that ;)

How about s/locality/recency/g?




  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-22 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-22  6:13 Yuanchu Xie
2022-12-22  6:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: support POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE for generic fadvise handler Yuanchu Xie
2022-12-22 21:37   ` Yu Zhao
2022-12-22  6:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: add vma_has_locality() Yuanchu Xie
2022-12-22 18:49 ` Andrew Morton
2022-12-22 19:44   ` Yu Zhao
2022-12-22 20:29     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-12-30 21:59       ` Yu Zhao
2022-12-22 19:52 ` Yu Zhao

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