On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:07:22PM +0200, Metin Döşlü wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Jaegeuk Hanse <jaegeuk.hanse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 11/21/2012 05:58 PM, metin d wrote: > > > > Hi Fengguang, > > > > I run tests and attached the results. The line below I guess shows the data-1 page caches. > > > > 0x000000080000006c 6584051 25718 __RU_lA___________________P________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private > > > > > > I thinks this is just one state of page cache pages. > > But why these page caches are in this state as opposed to other page > caches. From the results I conclude that: > > data-1 pages are in state : referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private I wonder if it's this code that stops data-1 pages from being reclaimed: shrink_page_list(): if (page_has_private(page)) { if (!try_to_release_page(page, sc->gfp_mask)) goto activate_locked; What's the filesystem used? > data-2 pages are in state : referenced,uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>