On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:38:19 -0500 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 detect frequently > used pages regardless of inactive list size and facilitate working set > transitions. It's a very readable patchset - thanks for taking the time to do that. > 31 files changed, 1253 insertions(+), 401 deletions(-) It's also a *ton* of stuff. More code complexity, larger kernel data structures. All to address a quite narrow class of workloads on a relatively small window of machine sizes. How on earth do we decide whether it's worth doing? Also, what's the memcg angle? This is presently a global thing - do you think we're likely to want to make it per-memcg in the future? -- 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>