Re: [RFC] cleanup of use-once

[Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Nikita Danilov wrote:

> So file system pages never get to the active list? Hmm... this doesn't
> sound right.

Yes they will, I changed vmscan.c to compensate.

>  > +		if (referenced) {
>  > +			/* New page. Let's see if it'll get used again... */
>  > +			if (TestClearPageNew(page))
>  > +				goto keep_locked;
>  >  			goto activate_locked;
>  > +		}
> 
> This will screw scanning most likely: no referenced page is ever
> reclaimed unless lowest scanning priority is reached---this looks like
> sure way to oom and has capacity to increase CPU consumption
> significantly.

Doubtful, the VM always manages to clear the referenced bits
faster than they can be set, especially on pages that aren't
even mapped!

The problem you describe should be a lot worse for mapped
pages, where we already do not run into the problem, despite
the VM taking no precautions.

-- 
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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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