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Re: [PATCH V5 4/6] mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 01:31:47PM -0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> When memory pressure is high, we free MADV_FREE pages. If the pages are
> not dirty in pte, the pages could be freed immediately. Otherwise we
> can't reclaim them. We put the pages back to anonumous LRU list (by
> setting SwapBacked flag) and the pages will be reclaimed in normal
> swapout way.
> 
> We use normal page reclaim policy. Since MADV_FREE pages are put into
> inactive file list, such pages and inactive file pages are reclaimed
> according to their age. This is expected, because we don't want to
> reclaim too many MADV_FREE pages before used once pages.
> 
> Based on Minchan's original patch
> 
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

FWIW, I agree with Minchan that this could be folded into the previous
patch and would be a little neater. But I don't feel strongly in this
case since I didn't have any trouble reviewing the patches like this -
void mark_page_lazyfree(struct page *) is an easy API to remember.

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[PATCH V5 0/6] mm: fix some MADV_FREE issues Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> - 2017-02-24 22:40 +0100
  [PATCH V5 6/6] proc: show MADV_FREE pages info in smaps Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> - 2017-02-24 22:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V5 6/6] proc: show MADV_FREE pages info in smaps Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-27 16:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V5 6/6] proc: show MADV_FREE pages info in smaps "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-02-28 04:30 +0100
  [PATCH V5 4/6] mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> - 2017-02-24 22:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V5 4/6] mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-02-27 07:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH V5 4/6] mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-27 17:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH V5 4/6] mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-02-28 06:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V5 4/6] mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-27 16:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V5 4/6] mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2017-02-27 18:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V5 4/6] mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-02-28 04:30 +0100
  [PATCH V5 1/6] mm: delete unnecessary TTU_* flags Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> - 2017-02-24 22:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] mm: delete unnecessary TTU_* flags Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-27 16:10 +0100
  [PATCH V5 2/6] mm: don't assume anonymous pages have SwapBacked flag Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> - 2017-02-24 22:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V5 2/6] mm: don't assume anonymous pages have SwapBacked flag "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-02-27 08:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V5 2/6] mm: don't assume anonymous pages have SwapBacked  flag Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-27 16:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH V5 2/6] mm: don't assume anonymous pages have SwapBacked  flag Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-27 17:50 +0100

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