On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:38:19 -0500 Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> This series solves the problem by maintaining a history of pages > evicted from the inactive list, enabling the VM to detect frequently > used pages regardless of inactive list size and facilitate working set > transitions. It's a very readable patchset - thanks for taking the time to do that. > 31 files changed, 1253 insertions(+), 401 deletions(-) It's also a *ton* of stuff. More code complexity, larger kernel data structures. All to address a quite narrow class of workloads on a relatively small window of machine sizes. How on earth do we decide whether it's worth doing? Also, what's the memcg angle? This is presently a global thing - do you think we're likely to want to make it per-memcg in the future? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
