Re: [PATCH 07/10] mm: base LRU balancing on an explicit cost model

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On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 10:34:43PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 15:48 -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Currently, scan pressure between the anon and file LRU lists is
> > balanced based on a mixture of reclaim efficiency and a somewhat
> > vague
> > notion of "value" of having certain pages in memory over others. That
> > concept of value is problematic, because it has caused us to count
> > any
> > event that remotely makes one LRU list more or less preferrable for
> > reclaim, even when these events are not directly comparable to each
> > other and impose very different costs on the system - such as a
> > referenced file page that we still deactivate and a referenced
> > anonymous page that we actually rotate back to the head of the list.
> > 
> 
> Well, patches 7-10 answered my question on patch 6 :)
> 
> I like this design.

Great! Thanks for reviewing.

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