From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "tytso@mit.edu" <tytso@mit.edu>, "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 10:18:47 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905071016410.24528@qirst.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1241705702.11251.156.camel@twins> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > It re-instates the young bit for PROT_EXEC pages, so that they will only > be paged when they are really cold, or there is severe pressure. But they are rescanned until then. Really cold means what exactly? I do a back up of a few hundred gigabytes and do not use firefox while the backup is ongoing. Will the firefox pages still be in memory or not? > This simply gives them an edge over regular data. I don't think the > extra scanning is a problem, since you rarely have huge amounts of > executable pages around. > > mlock()'ing all code just doesn't sound like a good alternative. Another possibility may be to put the exec pages on the mlock list and scan the list if under extreme duress?
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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "tytso@mit.edu" <tytso@mit.edu>, "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 10:18:47 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905071016410.24528@qirst.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1241705702.11251.156.camel@twins> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > It re-instates the young bit for PROT_EXEC pages, so that they will only > be paged when they are really cold, or there is severe pressure. But they are rescanned until then. Really cold means what exactly? I do a back up of a few hundred gigabytes and do not use firefox while the backup is ongoing. Will the firefox pages still be in memory or not? > This simply gives them an edge over regular data. I don't think the > extra scanning is a problem, since you rarely have huge amounts of > executable pages around. > > mlock()'ing all code just doesn't sound like a good alternative. Another possibility may be to put the exec pages on the mlock list and scan the list if under extreme duress? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>
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2009-05-07 15:21 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-08 3:30 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 3:30 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 4:17 ` [RFC][PATCH] vmscan: report vm_flags in page_referenced() Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 4:17 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 12:09 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-08 12:09 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-08 12:15 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 12:15 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 14:01 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-08 14:01 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-09 6:56 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-09 6:56 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-10 23:45 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-10 23:45 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-17 11:25 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-17 11:25 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-07 20:44 ` [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen Andrew Morton 2009-05-07 20:44 ` Andrew Morton 2009-05-08 8:16 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 8:16 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 8:28 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 8:28 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 19:58 ` Andrew Morton 2009-05-08 19:58 ` Andrew Morton 2009-05-08 22:00 ` Alan Cox 2009-05-08 22:00 ` Alan Cox 2009-05-08 22:15 ` Andrew 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2:51 ` [PATCH -mm] vmscan: report vm_flags in page_referenced() Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 2:51 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 6:23 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-05-12 6:23 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-05-12 6:44 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-12 6:44 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-12 11:44 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 11:44 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 2:52 ` [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 2:52 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 3:00 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-05-12 3:00 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-05-12 20:54 ` [PATCH -mm] vmscan: protect a fraction of file backed mapped pages from reclaim Christoph Lameter 2009-05-12 20:54 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-12 17:06 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-12 17:06 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-12 21:20 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-12 21:20 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-12 17:39 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-12 17:39 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-12 22:02 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-12 22:02 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-12 20:17 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-12 20:17 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-12 20:26 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-12 20:26 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-13 0:45 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-05-13 0:45 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-05-14 20:14 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-14 20:14 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-14 23:28 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-05-14 23:28 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-05-14 23:42 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-14 23:42 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-15 18:09 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-15 18:09 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-16 8:54 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-16 8:54 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 8:17 ` [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen Minchan Kim 2009-05-12 8:17 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-12 2:53 ` [PATCH -mm] vmscan: merge duplicate code in shrink_active_list() Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 2:53 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 2:58 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-05-12 2:58 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-05-12 3:03 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 3:03 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 7:26 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-12 7:26 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-12 11:48 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 11:48 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-12 11:57 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-12 11:57 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-12 13:32 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-12 13:32 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-16 9:30 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-16 9:30 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 3:02 ` [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 3:02 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 7:30 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-08 7:30 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-08 8:09 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 8:09 ` Wu Fengguang 2009-05-08 9:34 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-08 9:34 ` Minchan Kim 2009-05-08 14:25 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-08 14:25 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-05-08 14:34 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-08 14:34 ` Rik van Riel 2009-05-08 17:41 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-05-08 17:41 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-05-04 8:04 ` [PATCH] vmscan: evict use-once pages first (v2) Peter Zijlstra 2009-05-04 8:04 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-05-01 3:09 ` Elladan 2009-05-01 3:09 ` Elladan
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