Re: [PATCH 08/10] mm: deactivations shouldn't bias the LRU balance

2016-06-08 Thread Michal Hocko
On Mon 06-06-16 15:48:34, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Operations like MADV_FREE, FADV_DONTNEED etc. currently move any > affected active pages to the inactive list to accelerate their reclaim > (good) but also steer page reclaim toward that LRU type, or away from > the other (bad). > > The reason why

Re: [PATCH 08/10] mm: deactivations shouldn't bias the LRU balance

2016-06-08 Thread Minchan Kim
On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 03:48:34PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Operations like MADV_FREE, FADV_DONTNEED etc. currently move any > affected active pages to the inactive list to accelerate their reclaim > (good) but also steer page reclaim toward that LRU type, or away from > the other (bad). >