On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:48:04AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > mark_page_accessed cannot activate an inactive page that is located on > an inactive LRU pagevec. Hints from filesystems may be ignored as a > result. In preparation for fixing that problem, this patch removes the > per-LRU pagevecs and leaves just one pagevec. The final LRU the page is > added to is deferred until the pagevec is drained. > > This means that fewer pagevecs are available and potentially there is > greater contention on the LRU lock. However, this only applies in the case > where there is an almost perfect mix of file, anon, active and inactive > pages being added to the LRU. In practice I expect that we are adding > stream of pages of a particular time and that the changes in contention > will barely be measurable. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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>