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Re: [PATCH 9/9] mm: workingset: restore refault tracking for single-page files

From Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 9/9] mm: workingset: restore refault tracking for single-page files
Date 2016-11-18 09:40 +0100
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On Thu 17-11-16 14:32:44, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Shadow entries in the page cache used to be accounted behind the radix
> tree implementation's back in the upper bits of node->count, and the
> radix tree code extending a single-entry tree with a shadow entry in
> root->rnode would corrupt that counter. As a result, we could not put
> shadow entries at index 0 if the tree didn't have any other entries,
> and that means no refault detection for any single-page file.
> 
> Now that the shadow entries are tracked natively in the radix tree's
> exceptional counter, this is no longer necessary. Extending and
> shrinking the tree from and to single entries in root->rnode now does
> the right thing when the entry is exceptional, remove that limitation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Looks good. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  mm/filemap.c | 9 +--------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 7d92032277ff..ae7b6992aded 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -164,14 +164,7 @@ static void page_cache_tree_delete(struct address_space *mapping,
>  		__radix_tree_lookup(&mapping->page_tree, page->index + i,
>  				    &node, &slot);
>  
> -		if (!node) {
> -			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(nr != 1, page);
> -			/*
> -			 * We need a node to properly account shadow
> -			 * entries. Don't plant any without. XXX
> -			 */
> -			shadow = NULL;
> -		}
> +		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!node && nr != 1, page);
>  
>  		radix_tree_clear_tags(&mapping->page_tree, node, slot);
>  		__radix_tree_replace(&mapping->page_tree, node, slot, shadow,
> -- 
> 2.10.2
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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[PATCH 0/9] mm: workingset: radix tree subtleties & single-page file refaults v3 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-11-17 20:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4/9] lib: radix-tree: native accounting of exceptional entries Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-11-17 20:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/9] lib: radix-tree: native accounting of exceptional  entries Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-18 08:40 +0100
  [PATCH 6/9] lib: radix-tree: add entry deletion support to  __radix_tree_replace() Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-11-17 20:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 6/9] lib: radix-tree: add entry deletion support to  __radix_tree_replace() Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-18 09:20 +0100
  [PATCH 8/9] mm: workingset: move shadow entry tracking to radix tree  exceptional tracking Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-11-17 20:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 8/9] mm: workingset: move shadow entry tracking to radix  tree exceptional tracking Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-18 09:30 +0100
  [PATCH 7/9] lib: radix-tree: update callback for changing leaf nodes Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-11-17 20:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 7/9] lib: radix-tree: update callback for changing leaf  nodes Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-18 09:30 +0100
  [PATCH 5/9] lib: radix-tree: check accounting of existing slot  replacement users Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-11-17 20:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 5/9] lib: radix-tree: check accounting of existing slot  replacement users Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-18 08:50 +0100
  [PATCH 9/9] mm: workingset: restore refault tracking for single-page  files Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-11-17 20:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 9/9] mm: workingset: restore refault tracking for  single-page files Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-18 09:40 +0100

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