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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2008-10-18 20:26:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-20 08:50:25 -0700
commit7e9cd484204f9e5b316ed35b241abf088d76e0af (patch)
tree79f2567e7bb96af2d97d8d5407cc990e26eda95c /mm/swap_state.c
parent556adecba110bf5f1db6c6b56416cfab5bcab698 (diff)
vmscan: fix pagecache reclaim referenced bit check
Moving referenced pages back to the head of the active list creates a huge scalability problem, because by the time a large memory system finally runs out of free memory, every single page in the system will have been referenced. Not only do we not have the time to scan every single page on the active list, but since they have will all have the referenced bit set, that bit conveys no useful information. A more scalable solution is to just move every page that hits the end of the active list to the inactive list. We clear the referenced bit off of mapped pages, which need just one reference to be moved back onto the active list. Unmapped pages will be moved back to the active list after two references (see mark_page_accessed). We preserve the PG_referenced flag on unmapped pages to preserve accesses that were made while the page was on the active list. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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