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 [2/7]. - [1/7] is to remove checkpatch's reporting in mm/swap.c - [2/7] is to move invalidated page which is dirty/writeback on active list into inactive list's head. - [3/7] is to move memcg reclaimable page on inactive's tail. - [4/7] is for moving invalidated page into inactive list's tail when the page's writeout is completed for reclaim asap. - [5/7] is to add profing information for evaluation. - [6/7] is to remove zap_detail NULL dependency to some functions. It is for next patch. - [7/7] is to not calling mark_page_accessed in case of madvise(DONTNEED) This patches are based on mmotm-12-02 Before applying the series, Please, remove below patches. mm-deactivate-invalidated-pages.patch mm-deactivate-invalidated-pages-fix.patch Minchan Kim (7): Fix checkpatch's report in swap.c deactivate invalidated pages move memcg reclaimable page into tail of inactive list Reclaim invalidated page ASAP add profile information for invalidated page reclaim Remove zap_details NULL dependency Prevent activation of page in madvise_dontneed include/linux/memcontrol.h | 6 ++ include/linux/mm.h | 10 ++++ include/linux/swap.h | 1 + include/linux/vmstat.h | 4 +- mm/madvise.c | 13 +++-- mm/memcontrol.c | 27 +++++++++ mm/memory.c | 19 ++++--- mm/mmap.c | 6 ++- mm/page-writeback.c | 12 ++++- mm/swap.c | 127 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- mm/truncate.c | 17 +++++-- mm/vmstat.c | 3 + 12 files changed, 216 insertions(+), 29 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>