Ah, looks like I need to look at kmem_cache_reap too. When shrink_caches() is called, first the slab allocator is asked to free the pages. If the pages are not entirely freed, the remaining pages will be freed from other caches. <quote sender="Anthony Nicholson"> > look at rw_swap_page() in mm/page_io.c. This is the > low-level function which initiates swap in or out. If you > find all calls to this function, you should have it. > > anthony > > --- Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net> wrote: > > I am looking for possible areas in the kernel code where > > page outs occurs. I have looked at shrink_cache(), and > > swap_out_pmd() which calls try_to_swap_out(). > > > > Are there other areas that i missed out? > > > > I am looking at the areas where page outs will occur so > > that > > I can keep track of > > > > 1) number of page outs occurred at an arbitrary time. > > 2) what causes the page outs. > > > > Anticipating a reply... > > > > Eugene > > > > -- > > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > > kernel. > > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Eugene TEO <eugeneteo@despammed.com> <http://www.anomalistic.org/> 1024D/14A0DDE5 print D851 4574 E357 469C D308 A01E 7321 A38A 14A0 DDE5 main(i) { putchar(182623909 >> (i-1) * 5&31|!!(i<7)<<6) && main(++i); } -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
