Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: Ensure that mark_page_accessed moves pages tothe active list

[Mel Gorman]

On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:41:34PM +0800, Sam Ben wrote:
> Hi Mel,
> On 04/30/2013 12:31 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >If a page is on a pagevec then it is !PageLRU and mark_page_accessed()
> >may fail to move a page to the active list as expected. Now that the
> >LRU is selected at LRU drain time, mark pages PageActive if they are
> >on a pagevec so it gets moved to the correct list at LRU drain time.
> >Using a debugging patch it was found that for a simple git checkout
> >based workload that pages were never added to the active file list in
> 
> Could you show us the details of your workload?
> 

The workload is git checkouts of a fixed number of commits for the
kernel git tree. It starts with a warm-up run that is not timed and then
records the time for a number of iterations.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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