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SubjectRe: Fwd: Control page reclaim granularity
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed this discussion and decided to pitch in one small idea from my side.
>
> It would be nice to range lock an inode's pages by storing those
> ranges which would be locked.
> This could also add some good routines for the kernel in terms of
> range locking for a single inode.
> However, wouldn't this add some overhead to shrink_page_list() since
> that code would need to go through
> all these ranges while trying to reclaim a single page ?
>
> One small suggestion from my side is:
> Why don't we implement something like : "Complete page-cache reclaim
> control from usermode"?
> In this, we can set/unset the mapping to AS_UNEVICTABLE (as Konstantin
> mentioned) for a file's
> inode from usermode by using ioctl or fcntl or maybe even go as far as
> implementing an O_NORECL
> option to the open system call.
>

Of course, only an application executing with root privileges should
be allowed to set the inode's
mapping flags in this manner.


> After setting the AS_UNEVICTABLE, the usermode application can choose
> to keep and remove pages by
> using the fadvise(WILLNEED) and fadvise(DONTNEED).
>
> ( I think maybe the presence of any VMA is might not really be
> required for this idea. )
>
> Thanks,
> Kautuk.


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