Re: [patch 10/20] SEQ replacement for anonymous pages

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

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:17:53 +0900
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Hi Rik-san,
> 
> > To keep the maximum amount of necessary work reasonable, we scale the
> > active to inactive ratio with the size of memory, using the formula
> > active:inactive ratio = sqrt(memory in GB * 10).

> why do you think best formula is sqrt(GB*10)?
> please tell me if you don't mind.

On a 1GB system, this leads to a ratio of 3 active anon
pages to 1 inactive anon page, and a maximum inactive
anon list size of 250MB.
 
On a 1TB system, this leads to a ratio of 100 active anon
pages to 1 inactive anon page, and a maximum inactive
anon list size of 10GB.

The numbers in-between looked reasonable :)

Basically the requirement is that the inactive anon list 
is large enough that pages get a chance to be referenced
again, but small enough that the maximum amount of work
the VM needs to do is bounded to something reasonable.

> and i have a bit worry to it works well or not on small systems.
> because it is indicate 1:1 ratio on less than 100MB memory system.
> Do you think this viewpoint?

A 1:1 ratio simply means that the inactive anon list is
the same size as the active anon list. Page replacement
should still work fine that way.

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
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