Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: pagevec: Defer deciding what LRU to add a pageto until pagevec drain time

[Johannes Weiner]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:48:04AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> mark_page_accessed cannot activate an inactive page that is located on
> an inactive LRU pagevec. Hints from filesystems may be ignored as a
> result. In preparation for fixing that problem, this patch removes the
> per-LRU pagevecs and leaves just one pagevec. The final LRU the page is
> added to is deferred until the pagevec is drained.
> 
> This means that fewer pagevecs are available and potentially there is
> greater contention on the LRU lock. However, this only applies in the case
> where there is an almost perfect mix of file, anon, active and inactive
> pages being added to the LRU. In practice I expect that we are adding
> stream of pages of a particular time and that the changes in contention
> will barely be measurable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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