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Re: [PATCH] mm: move swap-in anonymous page into active list

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On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 12:25 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Every swap-in anonymous page starts from inactive lru list's head.
> It should be activated unconditionally when VM decide to reclaim
> because page table entry for the page always usually has marked
> accessed bit. Thus, their window size for getting a new referece
> is 2 * NR_inactive + NR_active while others is NR_active + NR_active.
> 
> It's not fair that it has more chance to be referenced compared
> to other newly allocated page which starts from active lru list's
> head.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

The reason newly read in swap cache pages start on the
inactive list is that we do some amount of read-around,
and do not know which pages will get used.

However, immediately activating the ones that DO get
used, like your patch does, is the right thing to do.

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[PATCH] mm: move swap-in anonymous page into active list Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2016-07-29 05:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: move swap-in anonymous page into active list Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-07-29 15:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: move swap-in anonymous page into active list Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2016-07-29 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: move swap-in anonymous page into active list Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-07-29 20:10 +0200

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