On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:07:22PM +0200, Metin Döşlü wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Jaegeuk Hanse <jaegeuk.ha...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/21/2012 05:58 PM, metin d wrote:
> >
> > Hi Fengguang,
> >
> > I run tests and attached the results. The line below I guess shows the 
> > data-1 page caches.
> >
> > 0x000000080000006c       6584051    25718  
> > __RU_lA___________________P________    
> > referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private
> >
> >
> > I thinks this is just one state of page cache pages.
> 
> But why these page caches are in this state as opposed to other page
> caches. From the results I conclude that:
> 
> data-1 pages are in state : referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private

I wonder if it's this code that stops data-1 pages from being
reclaimed:

shrink_page_list():

                if (page_has_private(page)) {
                        if (!try_to_release_page(page, sc->gfp_mask))
                                goto activate_locked;

What's the filesystem used?

> data-2 pages are in state : referenced,uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk

Thanks,
Fengguang
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