From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] refault distance-based file cache sizing
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 17:19:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA05354.8000304@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120501120819.0af1e54b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 05/01/2012 03:08 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2012 10:41:48 +0200
> Johannes Weiner<hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
>
>> This series stores file cache eviction information in the vacated page
>> cache radix tree slots and uses it on refault to see if the pages
>> currently on the active list need to have their status challenged.
>
> So we no longer free the radix-tree node when everything under it has
> been reclaimed? One could create workloads which would result in a
> tremendous amount of memory used by radix_tree_node_cachep objects.
>
> So I assume these things get thrown away at some point. Some
> discussion about the life-cycle here would be useful.
I assume that in the current codebase Johannes has, we would
have to rely on the inode cache shrinker to reclaim the inode
and throw out the radix tree nodes.
Having a better way to deal with radix tree nodes that contain
stale entries (where the evicted pages would no longer receive
special treatment on re-fault, because it has been so long) get
reclaimed would be nice for a future version.
Probably not too urgent, though...
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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] refault distance-based file cache sizing
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 17:19:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA05354.8000304@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120501120819.0af1e54b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 05/01/2012 03:08 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2012 10:41:48 +0200
> Johannes Weiner<hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
>
>> This series stores file cache eviction information in the vacated page
>> cache radix tree slots and uses it on refault to see if the pages
>> currently on the active list need to have their status challenged.
>
> So we no longer free the radix-tree node when everything under it has
> been reclaimed? One could create workloads which would result in a
> tremendous amount of memory used by radix_tree_node_cachep objects.
>
> So I assume these things get thrown away at some point. Some
> discussion about the life-cycle here would be useful.
I assume that in the current codebase Johannes has, we would
have to rely on the inode cache shrinker to reclaim the inode
and throw out the radix tree nodes.
Having a better way to deal with radix tree nodes that contain
stale entries (where the evicted pages would no longer receive
special treatment on re-fault, because it has been so long) get
reclaimed would be nice for a future version.
Probably not too urgent, though...
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-01 8:41 [patch 0/5] refault distance-based file cache sizing Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 8:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 8:41 ` [patch 1/5] mm: readahead: move radix tree hole searching here Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 8:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 21:06 ` Rik van Riel
2012-05-01 21:06 ` Rik van Riel
2012-05-01 8:41 ` [patch 2/5] mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 8:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 19:02 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-01 19:02 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-01 20:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 20:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-01 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-01 21:14 ` Rik van Riel
2012-05-01 21:14 ` Rik van Riel
2012-05-01 21:29 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 21:29 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 8:41 ` [patch 3/5] mm + fs: store shadow pages " Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 8:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 8:41 ` [patch 4/5] mm + fs: provide refault distance to page cache instantiations Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 8:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 9:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-01 9:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-01 9:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-01 9:55 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 9:55 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 9:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-01 9:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-01 9:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-01 8:41 ` [patch 5/5] mm: refault distance-based file cache sizing Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 8:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 14:13 ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-01 14:13 ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-01 15:38 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-01 15:38 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-02 5:21 ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-02 5:21 ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-02 1:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-02 1:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-02 6:23 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-02 6:23 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-02 15:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-02 15:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-01 19:08 ` [patch 0/5] " Andrew Morton
2012-05-01 19:08 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-01 21:19 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-05-01 21:19 ` Rik van Riel
2012-05-01 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-01 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-02 1:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-02 1:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-03 13:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-03 13:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-16 5:25 ` nai.xia
2012-05-16 5:25 ` nai.xia
2012-05-16 6:51 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-16 6:51 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-16 12:56 ` nai.xia
2012-05-16 12:56 ` nai.xia
2012-05-17 21:08 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-17 21:08 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-18 3:44 ` Nai Xia
2012-05-18 3:44 ` Nai Xia
2012-05-18 15:07 ` Rik van Riel
2012-05-18 15:07 ` Rik van Riel
2012-05-18 15:30 ` Nai Xia
2012-05-18 15:30 ` Nai Xia
2012-05-18 15:30 ` Nai Xia
2012-05-17 13:11 ` Rik van Riel
2012-05-17 13:11 ` Rik van Riel
2012-05-18 5:03 ` Nai Xia
2012-05-18 5:03 ` Nai Xia
2012-05-18 5:03 ` Nai Xia
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