Re: [PATCH next] mm/swap.c: reduce lock contention in lru_cache_add

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Nov 26 2020 - 10:56:12 EST


On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 04:44:04PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> However, Matthew wanted to increase pagevec size [1] and once 15^2 becomes
> 63^2, it starts to be somewhat more worrying.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201105172651.2455-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Well, Tim wanted it ;-)

I would suggest that rather than an insertion sort (or was it a bubble
sort?), we should be using a Shell sort. It's ideal for these kinds of
smallish arrays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellsort