Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/workingset : judge file page activity via timestamp

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Apr 17 2019 - 07:46:26 EST


On Wed 17-04-19 19:36:21, Zhaoyang Huang wrote:
> sorry for the confusion. What I mean is the basic idea doesn't change
> as replacing the refault criteria from refault_distance to timestamp.
> But the detailed implementation changed a lot, including fix bugs,
> update the way of packing the timestamp, 32bit/64bit differentiation
> etc. So it makes sense for starting a new context.

Not really. My take away from the previous discussion is that Johannes
has questioned the timestamping approach itself. I wasn't following very
closely so I might be wrong here but if that is really the case then it
doesn't make much sense to improve the implementation if there is no
consensus on the approach itself.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs