Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process termination

From	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process termination
Date	2016-05-02 16:50 +0200
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On 04/27/2016 07:11 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 6. Perhaps don't use the LRU pagevecs for large pages.  It limits the
>     severity of the problem.

I think that makes sense. Being large already amortizes the cost per 
base page much more than pagevecs do (512 vs ~22 pages?).

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Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process  termination Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-02 16:50 +0200
  Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process  termination "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-05-02 17:10 +0200
    Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process  termination Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-02 17:20 +0200
    Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process  termination Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2016-05-02 17:50 +0200
      Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process  termination "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-05-02 18:10 +0200
        Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process  termination Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-03 09:40 +0200
          Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process  termination "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-05-03 12:10 +0200

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