On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 11:07:42AM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote: > On Friday, 4 June 2021 12:47:40 AM AEST Peter Xu wrote: > > External email: Use caution opening links or attachments > > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 09:39:32PM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote: > > > Reclaim won't run on the page due to the extra references from the special > > > swap entries. > > > > That sounds reasonable, but I didn't find the point that stops it, probably > > due to my limited knowledge on the reclaim code. Could you elaborate? > > Sure, it isn't immediately obvious but it ends up being detected at the start > of is_page_cache_freeable() in the pageout code: > > > static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping) > { > > [...] > > if (!is_page_cache_freeable(page)) > return PAGE_KEEP; I did look at pageout() but still missed this small helper indeed (while it's so important to know..), thanks! -- Peter Xu