From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Linux MM Mailing List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] mm: more likely reclaim MADV_SEQUENTIAL mappings
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:40:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FDE9E9.5020805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4hugrwm.fsf@saeurebad.de>
Johannes Weiner wrote:
> I'm afraid this is now quite a bit more aggressive than the earlier
> version. When the fault path did a mark_page_access(), we wouldn't
> reclaim a page when it has been faulted into several MADV_SEQUENTIAL
> mappings but now we ignore *every* activity through such a mapping.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Perhaps we should note a reference if there are two or more accesses
> through sequentially read mappings?
That can be easily accomplished by dropping the memory.c
part of your patch.
I do not know whether that would work any better than
the patch you just posted, though :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 10:32 Johannes Weiner
2008-10-21 10:43 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-21 11:33 ` [patch] mm: more likely reclaim MADV_SEQUENTIAL mappings II Johannes Weiner
2008-10-21 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-22 0:09 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-10-22 0:51 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-10-22 6:39 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-10-22 7:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-10-22 7:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-24 0:21 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-10-24 12:55 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-10-24 14:02 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-10-24 14:31 ` Rik van Riel
2008-10-24 16:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-10-24 23:48 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-10-24 18:59 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-10-21 14:40 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2008-10-21 15:20 ` [rfc] mm: more likely reclaim MADV_SEQUENTIAL mappings Johannes Weiner
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