Re: [RFC] Track mlock()ed pages

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:44:42 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > > > > Track mlocked pages via a ZVC
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> Large amounts of mlocked pages may be a problem for 
> 
> 1. Reclaim behavior.
> 
> 2. Defragmentation
> 

We know that.  What has that to do with this patch?

> 
> > You could perhaps go for a walk across all the other vmas which presently
> > map this page.  If any of them have VM_LOCKED, don't increment the counter.
> > Similar on removal: only decrement the counter when the final mlocked VMA
> > is dropping the pte.
> 
> For that we would need an additional refcount for vmlocked maps in the 
> page struct.

No you don't.  The refcount is already there.  It is "the sum of the VM_LOCKED
VMAs which map this page".

It might be impractical or expensive to calculate it, but it's there.
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