From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Current implementation of LRU management for anonymous page has some problems. Most important one is that it doesn't protect the workingset, that is, pages on the active LRU list. Although, this problem will be fixed in the following patchset, the preparation is required and this patch does it. What following patch does is to implement workingset protection. After the following patchset, newly created or swap-in pages will start their lifetime on the inactive list. If inactive list is too small, there is not enough chance to be referenced and the page cannot become the workingset. In order to provide the newly anonymous or swap-in pages enough chance to be referenced again, this patch makes active/inactive LRU ratio as 1:1. This is just a temporary measure. Later patch in the series introduces workingset detection for anonymous LRU that will be used to better decide if pages should start on the active and inactive list. Afterwards this patch is effectively reverted. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 6acc956..d5a19c7 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2208,7 +2208,7 @@ static bool inactive_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list inactive_lru) active = lruvec_page_state(lruvec, NR_LRU_BASE + active_lru); gb = (inactive + active) >> (30 - PAGE_SHIFT); - if (gb) + if (gb && is_file_lru(inactive_lru)) inactive_ratio = int_sqrt(10 * gb); else inactive_ratio = 1; -- 2.7.4
