linux-kernel - RE: [RFC] respect the referenced bit of KVM guest pages?

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Message-ID: <9EECC02A4CC333418C00A85D21E89326B651C1FE@azsmsx502.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:00:13 -0700
From:	"Dike, Jeffrey G" <jeffrey.g.dike@...el.com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	"Wu, Fengguang" <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
CC:	"Yu, Wilfred" <wilfred.yu@...el.com>,
	"Kleen, Andi" <andi.kleen@...el.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC] respect the referenced bit of KVM guest pages?

> Also, the inactive list (where references to anonymous pages
> _do_ count) is pretty big.  Is it not big enough in Jeff's
> test case?

> Jeff, what kind of workloads are you running in the guests?

I'm looking at KVM on small systems.  My "small system" is a 128M memory compartment on a 4G server.

The workload is boot up the instance, start Firefox and another app (whatever editor comes by default with Moblin), close them, and shut down the instance.

					Jeff

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