linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: Ensure that mark_page_accessed moves pages to the active list

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Message-ID: <20130501083139.GH11497@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 1 May 2013 09:31:39 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Ric Mason <ric.masonn@...il.com>
Cc:	Sam Ben <sam.bennn@...il.com>,
	Alexey Lyahkov <alexey.lyashkov@...il.com>,
	Andrew Perepechko <anserper@...ru>,
	Robin Dong <sanbai@...bao.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: Ensure that mark_page_accessed moves pages to
 the active list

On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 04:14:16PM +0800, Ric Mason wrote:
> On 05/01/2013 04:06 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:41:34PM +0800, Sam Ben wrote:
> >>Hi Mel,
> >>On 04/30/2013 12:31 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >>>If a page is on a pagevec then it is !PageLRU and mark_page_accessed()
> >>>may fail to move a page to the active list as expected. Now that the
> >>>LRU is selected at LRU drain time, mark pages PageActive if they are
> >>>on a pagevec so it gets moved to the correct list at LRU drain time.
> >>>Using a debugging patch it was found that for a simple git checkout
> >>>based workload that pages were never added to the active file list in
> >>Could you show us the details of your workload?
> >>
> >The workload is git checkouts of a fixed number of commits for the
> 
> Is there script which you used?
> 

mmtests with config-global-dhp__io-gitcheckout-randread-starvation . Parallel
randread was to see if the random file read would push the metadata blocks
out or not. I expected it would not be enough to trigger the reported
problem but it would be enough to determine if file pages were getting
added to the active lists or not.

> >kernel git tree. It starts with a warm-up run that is not timed and then
> >records the time for a number of iterations.
> 
> How to record the time for a number of iterations? Is the iteration
> here means lru scan?
> 

/usr/bin/time

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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