Re: [PATCH 01/16] mm: delayed page activation
From: Nikita Danilov
Date: Sun Dec 04 2005 - 07:11:03 EST
Wu Fengguang writes:
> When a page is referenced the second time in inactive_list, mark it with
> PG_activate instead of moving it into active_list immediately. The actual
> moving work is delayed to vmscan time.
>
> This implies two essential changes:
> - keeps the adjecency of pages in lru;
But this change destroys LRU ordering: at the time when shrink_list()
inspects PG_activate bit, information about order in which
mark_page_accessed() was called against pages is lost. E.g., suppose
inactive list initially contained pages
/* head */ (P1, P2, P3) /* tail */
all of them referenced. Then mark_page_accessed(), is called against P1,
P2, and P3 (in that order). With the old code active list would end up
/* head */ (P3, P2, P1) /* tail */
which corresponds to LRU. With delayed page activation, pages are moved
to head of the active list in the order they are analyzed by
shrink_list(), which gives
/* head */ (P1, P2, P3) /* tail */
on the active list, that is _inverse_ LRU order.
Nikita.
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