Re: Making direct reclaim fail when thrashing

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:21:43AM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Here I'm experimenting by adding another tag to the page cache radix tree,
> tagging pages that were activated in the refault path.

NAK.  No more tags or you blow up the memory consumption of the radix
tree by 15%.

> And then in get_scan_count I'm checking how many active pages have that
> tag, and also looking at the size of the active and inactive lists.

You'd be better off using a bit in struct page somewhere ...