Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first classcitizen

[Rik van Riel]

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 17:10 +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>
> > > @@ -1269,8 +1270,15 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned 
> > >  
> > >  		/* page_referenced clears PageReferenced */
> > >  		if (page_mapping_inuse(page) &&
> > > -		    page_referenced(page, 0, sc->mem_cgroup))
> > > +		    page_referenced(page, 0, sc->mem_cgroup)) {
> > > +			struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
> > > +
> > >  			pgmoved++;
> > > +			if (mapping && test_bit(AS_EXEC, &mapping->flags)) {
> > > +				list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
> > > +				continue;
> > > +			}
> > > +		}
> > Since we walk the VMAs in page_referenced anyway, wouldn't it be
> > better to check if one of them is executable?  This would even work
> > for executable anon pages.  After all, there are applications that cow
> > executable mappings (sbcl and other language environments that use an
> > executable, run-time modified core image come to mind).
>
> Hmm, like provide a vm_flags mask along to page_referenced() to only
> account matching vmas... seems like a sensible idea.

Not for anon pages, though, because JVMs could have way too many
executable anonymous segments, which would make us run into the
scalability problems again.

Lets leave this just to the file side of the LRUs, because that
is where we have the streaming IO problem.
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