Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process termination

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 04:39:35PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 04/27/2016 07:11 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> >6. Perhaps don't use the LRU pagevecs for large pages.  It limits the
> >    severity of the problem.
> 
> I think that makes sense. Being large already amortizes the cost per base
> page much more than pagevecs do (512 vs ~22 pages?).

We try to do this already, don't we? Any spefic case where we have THPs on
pagevecs?

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 Kirill A. Shutemov