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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2010-03-05 13:42:22 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-06 11:26:27 -0800
commit645747462435d84c6c6a64269ed49cc3015f753d (patch)
tree4cbbddcddd429704dd4f205f6371bb329dcb0ff1 /include
parent31c0569c3b0b6cc8a867ac6665ca081553f7984c (diff)
vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once
The VM currently assumes that an inactive, mapped and referenced file page is in use and promotes it to the active list. However, every mapped file page starts out like this and thus a problem arises when workloads create a stream of such pages that are used only for a short time. By flooding the active list with those pages, the VM quickly gets into trouble finding eligible reclaim canditates. The result is long allocation latencies and eviction of the wrong pages. This patch reuses the PG_referenced page flag (used for unmapped file pages) to implement a usage detection that scales with the speed of LRU list cycling (i.e. memory pressure). If the scanner encounters those pages, the flag is set and the page cycled again on the inactive list. Only if it returns with another page table reference it is activated. Otherwise it is reclaimed as 'not recently used cache'. This effectively changes the minimum lifetime of a used-once mapped file page from a full memory cycle to an inactive list cycle, which allows it to occur in linear streams without affecting the stable working set of the system. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: OSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rmap.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h
index 72be23b1480..d25bd224d37 100644
--- a/include/linux/rmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static inline int page_referenced(struct page *page, int is_locked,
unsigned long *vm_flags)
{
*vm_flags = 0;
- return TestClearPageReferenced(page);
+ return 0;
}
#define try_to_unmap(page, refs) SWAP_FAIL