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Subject: Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process
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On 04/27/2016 07:11 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 6. Perhaps don't use the LRU pagevecs for large pages.  It limits the
>     severity of the problem.

I think that makes sense. Being large already amortizes the cost per 
base page much more than pagevecs do (512 vs ~22 pages?).