Aubrey Li wrote:
> On 1/25/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
>>>
>>>> With your patch, MMAP of a file that will cross the pagecache limit hangs the
>>>> system. As I mentioned in my previous mail, without subtracting the
>>>> NR_FILE_MAPPED, the reclaim will infinitely try and fail.
>>> Well mapped pages are still pagecache pages.
>>>
>> Yes, but they can be classified under a process RSS pages. Whether it
>> is an anon page or shared mem or mmap of pagecache, it would show up
>> under RSS. Those pages can be limited by RSS limiter similar to the
>> one we are discussing in pagecache limiter. In my opinion, once a
>> file page is mapped by the process, then it should be treated at par
>> with anon pages. Application programs generally do not mmap a file
>> page if the reuse for the content is very low.
>>
>
> I agree, we shouldn't take mmapped page into account.
> But Vaidy - even with your patch, we are still using the existing
> reclaimer, that means we dont ensure that only page cache is
> reclaimed/limited. mapped pages will be hit also.
> I think we still need to add a new scancontrol field to lock mmaped
> pages and remove unmapped pagecache pages only.
I have tried to add scan control to Roy's patch at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/01/17/96
In that patch, we search and remove only pages that are not mapped.
We also remove referenced and hot pagecache pages which the normal
reclaimer is not expected to consider.
I will try to fit that logic in Christoph's patch and test.
--Vaidy
> -Aubrey
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