Re: [PATCH 6/8] mm: lru_deactivate_fn should clear PG_referenced

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Oct 30 2015 - 08:47:19 EST


On Fri 30-10-15 16:01:42, Minchan Kim wrote:
> deactivate_page aims for accelerate for reclaiming through
> moving pages from active list to inactive list so we should
> clear PG_referenced for the goal.

I might be missing something but aren't we using PG_referenced only for
pagecache (and shmem) pages?

>
> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/swap.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
> index d0eacc5f62a3..4a6aec976ab1 100644
> --- a/mm/swap.c
> +++ b/mm/swap.c
> @@ -810,6 +810,7 @@ static void lru_deactivate_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
>
> del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru + LRU_ACTIVE);
> ClearPageActive(page);
> + ClearPageReferenced(page);
> add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
>
> __count_vm_event(PGDEACTIVATE);
> --
> 1.9.1

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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