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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:37:22 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To: "Dike, Jeffrey G" <jeffrey.g.dike@...el.com>
CC: "Wu, Fengguang" <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] respect the referenced bit of KVM guest pages?
Dike, Jeffrey G wrote:
> A side note - I've been doing some tracing and shrink_active_list is called a humongous number of times (25000-ish during a ~90 kvm run), with a net result of zero pages moved nearly all the time. Your test is rescuing essentially all candidate pages from the inactive list. Right now, I have the VM_EXEC || PageAnon version of your test.
That is exactly why the the split LRU VM does an unconditional
deactivation of active anon pages :)
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