On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
(testing now)
> Linus, can you merge this patch in the next pre-patch? Marcelo and
> Andrew, can you test if this fixes your problems properly or if we need
> further work on it for the oom problem?
>
> Only in 2.4.10pre11aa1: 00_vm-aa-2
>
> description of the patch:
>
> - fixed a race condition in rw_swap_page path: if we need
> to wait synchronously on the page we must hold a reference
> on the page or it could be freed by the VM under us
> after it's been unlocked at I/O completion time (see
> the page_io.c changes)
> - don't hide anything (see the new parameter "this_max_scan" to
> shrink_cache)
> - don't skip work on the ptes but just don't stop until we
> unmapped the "interesting" pages from the right classzone
I really think we should reintroduce the idea of "enough" inactive/free
pages, Andrea.
This way we avoid starving the page reclaiming work on only one zone when
we have a small zone under extreme pressure, while at the same time we
avoid breaking writeout clustering and the "fairness" of pte scanning.
Do you remember the "zone_inactive_plenty()/zone_free_plenty()" stuff
which we had back into pre10 ?
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