From 315601809d124d046abd6c3ffa346d0dbd7aa29d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Minchan Kim Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:32:52 -0700 Subject: mm: deactivate invalidated pages Recently, there are reported problem about thrashing. (http://marc.info/?l=rsync&m=128885034930933&w=2) It happens by backup workloads(ex, nightly rsync). That's because the workload makes just use-once pages and touches pages twice. It promotes the page into active list so that it results in working set page eviction. Some app developer want to support POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE. But other OSes don't support it, either. (http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=128928979512086&w=2) By other approach, app developers use POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED. But it has a problem. If kernel meets page is writing during invalidate_mapping_pages, it can't work. It makes for application programmer to use it since they always have to sync data before calling fadivse(..POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) to make sure the pages could be discardable. At last, they can't use deferred write of kernel so that they could see performance loss. (http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html) In fact, invalidation is very big hint to reclaimer. It means we don't use the page any more. So let's move the writing page into inactive list's head if we can't truncate it right now. Why I move page to head of lru on this patch, Dirty/Writeback page would be flushed sooner or later. It can prevent writeout of pageout which is less effective than flusher's writeout. Originally, I reused lru_demote of Peter with some change so added his Signed-off-by. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Reported-by: Ben Gamari Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Wu Fengguang Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/swap.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/swap.h') diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h index 4d559325d919..c335055c4253 100644 --- a/include/linux/swap.h +++ b/include/linux/swap.h @@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ extern void mark_page_accessed(struct page *); extern void lru_add_drain(void); extern int lru_add_drain_all(void); extern void rotate_reclaimable_page(struct page *page); +extern void deactivate_page(struct page *page); extern void swap_setup(void); extern void add_page_to_unevictable_list(struct page *page); -- cgit v1.2.3