On Thu 21-03-13 10:33:07, Simon Jeons wrote:Hi Mel,It reads from file and puts pages into the page cache. The pages are not
On 03/21/2013 02:19 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
The following problem was reported against a distribution kernel whenI confuse why this need allocate a large number of clean pages?
zone_reclaim was enabled but the same problem applies to the mainline
kernel. The reproduction case was as follows
1. Run numactl -m +0 dd if=largefile of=/dev/null
This allocates a large number of clean pages in node 0
modified so they are clean. Output file is /dev/null so no pages are
written. dd doesn't call fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) on the input file
by default so pages from the file stay in the page cache