Re: [PATCH] 2/2 swap token tuning

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>]

On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 18:35 -0400, Rik Van Riel wrote:

<snip>

> This patch should have the effect of automatically, and gradually,
> disabling the enforcement of the swap token when there is little
> or no paging going on, and "turning up" the intensity of the swap
> token code the more the task holding the token is thrashing.
> 
> Thanks to Song Jiang for pointing out this aspect of the token
> based thrashing control concept.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel
> 

<snip>

I might be missing something here, but shouldn't this rather be:

> --- 2.6.12-swaptoken/mm/rmap.c.orig	2005-06-26 17:16:50.000000000 -0400
> +++ 2.6.12-swaptoken/mm/rmap.c	2005-06-26 17:13:17.000000000 -0400
> @@ -301,7 +301,11 @@ static int page_referenced_one(struct pa
>  		if (ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte))
>  			referenced++;
>  
> -		if (mm != current->mm && !ignore_token && has_swap_token(mm))
> +		/* Pretend the page is referenced if the task has the
> +		   swap token and is in the middle of a page fault. */
> +		if (mm != current->mm && !ignore_token &&
> +				has_swap_token(mm) &&
-+				sem_is_read_locked(mm->mmap_sem))
+                               sem_is_read_locked(&mm->mmap_sem))

As mm is a pointer, but mm->mmap_sem is not a pointer?  This is with
2.6.12-mm2 though ...


Thanks,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer

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