linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/5] refault distance-based file cache sizing

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 09:11:30 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	"nai.xia" <nai.xia@...il.com>
CC:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] refault distance-based file cache sizing

On 05/16/2012 01:25 AM, nai.xia wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
>
> Just out of curiosity(since I didn't study deep into the
> reclaiming algorithms), I can recall from here that around 2005,
> there was an(or some?) implementation of the "Clock-pro" algorithm
> which also have the idea of "reuse distance", but it seems that algo
> did not work well enough to get merged?

The main issue with clock-pro was scalability.

Johannes has managed to take the good parts of clock-pro,
and add it on top of our split lru VM, which lets us keep
the scalability, while still being able to deal with file
faults from beyond the inactive list.

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