Re: [PATCH] x86,mm: delay TLB flush after clearing accessed bit

[Shaohua Li]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 02:31:31PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 04/01/2014 12:21 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Memory pressure is not necessarily caused by the same process
> >> whose accessed bit we just cleared. Memory pressure may not
> >> even be caused by any process's virtual memory at all, but it
> >> could be caused by the page cache.
> > 
> > If we have that much memory pressure on the page cache without having
> > any memory pressure on the actual VM space, then the swap-out activity
> > will never be an issue anyway.
> > 
> > IOW, I think all these scenarios are made-up. I'd much rather go for
> > simpler implementation, and make things more complex only in the
> > presence of numbers. Of which we have none.
> 
> We've been bitten by the lack of a properly tracked accessed
> bit before, but admittedly that was with the KVM code and EPT.
> 
> I'll add my Acked-by: to Shaohua's original patch then, and
> will keep my eyes open for any problems that may or may not
> materialize...
> 
> Shaohua?

I'd agree to choose the simple implementation at current stage and check if
there are problems really.

Andrew,
can you please pick up my orginal patch "x86: clearing access bit don't
flush tlb" (with Rik's Ack)? Or I can resend it if you preferred.

Thanks,
Shaohua
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