Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm: Activate !PageLRU pages on mark_page_accessedif page is on local pagevec

[Rik van Riel]

On 05/13/2013 06:21 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:

> In this case a PageActive page is added to the inactivate list and later the
> inactive/active stats will get skewed. While the PageActive checks in vmscan
> could be removed and potentially dealt with, a skew in the statistics would
> be very difficult to detect. Hence this patch deals just with the common case
> where a page being marked accessed has just been added to the local pagevec.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

After thinking about it some more, I suspect the possible issue
I outlined before should not be an issue in practice.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>


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