Recently there is a report about working set page eviction due to rsync workload. application programmers want to use fadvise but it's not easy. You could see detailed description on [1/3]. - [1/3] is to move invalidated page which is dirty/writeback on active list into inactive list's head. - [2/3] is for moving invalidated page into inactive list's tail when the page's writeout is completed. - [3/3] is to not calling mark_page_accessed in case of madvise(DONTNEED). Minchan Kim (3): deactivate invalidated pages Reclaim invalidated page ASAP Prevent activation of page in madvise_dontneed include/linux/mm.h | 4 +- include/linux/swap.h | 1 + mm/madvise.c | 4 +- mm/memory.c | 38 +++++++++++------- mm/mmap.c | 4 +- mm/page-writeback.c | 12 +++++- mm/swap.c | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/truncate.c | 16 ++++++-- 8 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>