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

From: Wu Fengguang
Date: Sun Aug 16 2009 - 01:19:02 EST


On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:56:39AM +0800, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Wu Fengguang wrote:
>
> > Right, but I meant busty page allocations and accesses on them, which
> > can make a large continuous segment of referenced pages in LRU list,
> > say 50MB. They may or may not be valuable as a whole, however a local
> > algorithm may keep the first 4MB and drop the remaining 46MB.
>
> I wonder if the problem is that we simply do not keep a large
> enough inactive list in Jeff's test. If we do not, pages do
> not have a chance to be referenced again before the reclaim
> code comes in.

Exactly, that's the case I call the list FIFO.

> The cgroup stats should show how many active anon and inactive
> anon pages there are in the cgroup.

Jeff, can you have a look at these stats? Thanks!
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/