linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Support kshrinkd

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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 02:55:21 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: 李培锋 <lipeifeng@...o.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, david@...hat.com, osalvador@...e.de,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	v-songbaohua@...o.com, gregkh@...gle.com, tkjos@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Support kshrinkd

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 10:04:33AM +0800, 李培锋 wrote:
> Monkey-test in phone with 16G-ram for 300 hours shows that almost one-third
> 
> of the contended-pages can be freed successfully next time, putting back
> those
> 
> folios to LRU's head would break the rules of inative-LRU.

You talk about "the rules of inactive LRU" like we care.  The LRU is
an approximation at best.  What are the *consequences*?  Is there a
benchmark that executes more operations per second as a result of
this patch?