Re: [PATCH] Provide an interface to limit total page cache.

Hi Balbir,

Thanks for your comment.

On 1/15/07, Balbir Singh <[email protected]> wrote:

wakeup_kswapd and shrink_all_memory use swappiness to determine what to reclaim
(mapped pages or page cache).  This patch does not ensure that only
page cache is
reclaimed/limited. If the swappiness value is high, mapped pages will be hit.

You are right, it is possible to release mapped pages. It can be
avoided by add a field in "struct scan_control" to determine whether
mapped pages will be released.

One could get similar functionality by implementing resource management.

Resource  management splits tasks into groups and does management of
resources for the
groups rather than the whole system. Such a facility will come with a
resource controller for
memory (split into finer grain rss/page cache/mlock'ed memory, etc),
one for cpu, etc.

I s there any more information in detail about resource controller?
Even there is a resource controller for tasks, all memory is also
possbile to be eaten up by page cache.

Balbir

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