linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2009 11:14:22 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Elladan <elladan@...imo.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	"tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"minchan.kim@...il.com" <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first
 class  citizen

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:12 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:05:51PM +0800, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 09:44 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > Its a sekrit conspiracy against bloat by making JIT'd crap run
> > > slower :-)
> > > 
> > > <rant>
> > > Anyway, I just checked, we install tons of mono junk for _2_
> > > applications, f-spot and tomboy, both are shite and both have
> > > alternatives not requiring this disease.
> > > </rant>
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 09:44 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > But seriously, like Kosaka-san already said, anonymous pages are treated
> > > differently from file pages and should not suffer the same problems.
> > 
> > OK, thanks for the explanation. The comment is a little bit misleading
> > because I got the impression that we don't care about anon exec pages.
> 
> Ah yes!  Will this one dismiss the possible mis-interception?
> 
>                         /*
>                          * Identify referenced, file-backed active pages and
>                          * give them one more trip around the active list. So
>                          * that executable code get better chances to stay in
>                          * memory under moderate memory pressure.  Anon pages
> modified ==>             * are not likely to be evicted by use-once streaming
> modified ==>             * IO, plus JVM can create lots of anon VM_EXEC pages,
> modified ==>             * so we ignore them here.
>                          */
>                         if ((vm_flags & VM_EXEC) && !PageAnon(page)) {
>                                 list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
>                                 continue;
>                         }

Yes, it's better. Even I can understand it now :-).

			Pekka

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