Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: consistent update to pgdeactivate and pgactivate

[Shakeel Butt]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 9:31 AM Hao Lee <haolee.swjtu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After the commit 912c05720f00 ("mm: vmscan: consistent update to
> pgrefill"), pgrefill is consistent with pgscan and pgsteal. Only under
> global reclaim, are they updated at system level. Apart from that,
> pgdeactivate is often used together with pgrefill to measure the
> deactivation efficiency and pgactivate is used together with
> pgscan to measure the reclaim efficiency. It's also necessary to
> make pgdeactivate and pgactivate consistent with this rule.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hao Lee <haolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

pgactivate and pgdeactivate are also updated in code paths other than
memory reclaim like mark_page_accessed() or madvise(COLD). Wouldn't
that impact your analysis of these metrics as well?