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SubjectRe: [RFC] respect the referenced bit of KVM guest pages?
* Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> [2009-08-16 12:55:22]:

> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:56:39AM +0800, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Wu Fengguang wrote:
> >
> > > Right, but I meant busty page allocations and accesses on them, which
> > > can make a large continuous segment of referenced pages in LRU list,
> > > say 50MB. They may or may not be valuable as a whole, however a local
> > > algorithm may keep the first 4MB and drop the remaining 46MB.
> >
> > I wonder if the problem is that we simply do not keep a large
> > enough inactive list in Jeff's test. If we do not, pages do
> > not have a chance to be referenced again before the reclaim
> > code comes in.
>
> Exactly, that's the case I call the list FIFO.
>
> > The cgroup stats should show how many active anon and inactive
> > anon pages there are in the cgroup.
>
> Jeff, can you have a look at these stats? Thanks!

Another experiment would be to toy with memory.swappiness (although
defaults should work well). Could you compare the in-guest values of
nr_*active* with the cgroup values as seen by the host?

--
Balbir


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