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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	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>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: RFC:  Easy-Reclaimable LRU list
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:53:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE5E66C.6080309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE549E8.2050905@jp.fujitsu.com>

On 06/23/2012 12:45 AM, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote:

> I think this is interesting approach. Major concern is how to guarantee
> EReclaimable
> pages are really EReclaimable...Do you have any idea ? madviced pages
> are really EReclaimable ?

I suspect the EReclaimable pages can only be clean page
cache pages that are not mapped by any processes.

Once somebody tries to use the page, mark_page_accessed
will move it to another list.

> A (very) small concern is will you use one more page-flags for this ? ;)

This could be an issue on a 32 bit system, true.

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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	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>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: RFC:  Easy-Reclaimable LRU list
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:53:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE5E66C.6080309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE549E8.2050905@jp.fujitsu.com>

On 06/23/2012 12:45 AM, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote:

> I think this is interesting approach. Major concern is how to guarantee
> EReclaimable
> pages are really EReclaimable...Do you have any idea ? madviced pages
> are really EReclaimable ?

I suspect the EReclaimable pages can only be clean page
cache pages that are not mapped by any processes.

Once somebody tries to use the page, mark_page_accessed
will move it to another list.

> A (very) small concern is will you use one more page-flags for this ? ;)

This could be an issue on a 32 bit system, true.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-23 15:53 UTC|newest]

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

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