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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
	Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: don't promote exclusive file folios of dying processes
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:32:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34c54df6-9a7c-475d-9b91-0f8acb118231@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250412085852.48524-1-21cnbao@gmail.com>

On 12.04.25 10:58, Barry Song wrote:
> From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
> 
> Promoting exclusive file folios of a dying process is unnecessary and
> harmful. For example, while Firefox is killed and LibreOffice is
> launched, activating Firefox's young file-backed folios makes it
> harder to reclaim memory that LibreOffice doesn't use at all.

Do we know when it is reasonable to promote any folios of a dying process?

Assume you restart Firefox, would it really matter to promote them when 
unmapping? New Firefox would fault-in / touch the ones it really needs 
immediately afterwards?

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-04-16  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-12  8:58 Barry Song
2025-04-12 15:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-04-12 16:31 ` Zi Yan
2025-04-16  7:48   ` Barry Song
2025-04-16  8:24     ` Baolin Wang
2025-04-16  8:32 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2025-04-16  9:24   ` Barry Song
2025-04-16  9:32     ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-16  9:38       ` Barry Song
2025-04-16  9:40         ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-16 14:15           ` Johannes Weiner
2025-04-16 15:59             ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-16 18:18               ` Johannes Weiner
2025-04-16 21:54                 ` Barry Song
2025-04-16 23:58                   ` Johannes Weiner
2025-04-17  2:43                     ` Barry Song
2025-04-17 12:17                       ` Johannes Weiner
2025-04-17 12:57                         ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-18  0:16                           ` Barry Song

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