On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 18:44:01 -0400 Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This series solves the problem by maintaining a history of pages > evicted from the inactive list, enabling the VM to tell streaming IO > from thrashing and rebalance the page cache lists when appropriate. Looks nice. The lack of testing results is conspicuous ;) It only really solves the problem in the case where size-of-inactive-list < size-of-working-set < size-of-total-memory yes? In fact less than that, because the active list presumably doesn't get shrunk to zero (how far *can* it go?). I wonder how many workloads fit into those constraints in the real world. -- 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>