Re: [RFC] respect the referenced bit of KVM guest pages?

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:14:09 +0300
Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 08/06/2009 12:59 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> >> Do we know for a fact that only stack pages suffer, or is it what has
> >> been noticed?
> >>      
> >
> > It shall be the first case: "These pages are nearly all stack pages.",
> > Jeff said.
> >    
> 
> Ok.  I can't explain it.  There's no special treatment for guest stack 
> pages.  The accessed bit should be maintained for them exactly like all 
> other pages.
> 
> Are they kernel-mode stack pages, or user-mode stack pages (the 
> difference being that kernel mode stack pages are accessed through large 
> ptes, whereas user mode stack pages are accessed through normal ptes).
> 


Hmm, finally, memcg's problem ?
just as an experiment, how following works ?

 - memory.limit_in_bytes = 128MB
 - memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes = 160MB

By this, if mamory+swap usage hits 160MB, no swap more. 
But plz take care of OOM.

THanks,
-Kame

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