linux-kernel - Re: Making direct reclaim fail when thrashing

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Date:   Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:01:22 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>
Cc:     mhocko@...nel.org, hannes@...xchg.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux@...lessm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Making direct reclaim fail when thrashing

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:21:43AM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Here I'm experimenting by adding another tag to the page cache radix tree,
> tagging pages that were activated in the refault path.

NAK.  No more tags or you blow up the memory consumption of the radix
tree by 15%.

> And then in get_scan_count I'm checking how many active pages have that
> tag, and also looking at the size of the active and inactive lists.

You'd be better off using a bit in struct page somewhere ...