Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 May 2013 13:40:58 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm: Activate !PageLRU pages on mark_page_accessed if page is on local pagevec |
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On 05/13/2013 06:21 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> In this case a PageActive page is added to the inactivate list and later the > inactive/active stats will get skewed. While the PageActive checks in vmscan > could be removed and potentially dealt with, a skew in the statistics would > be very difficult to detect. Hence this patch deals just with the common case > where a page being marked accessed has just been added to the local pagevec. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
After thinking about it some more, I suspect the possible issue I outlined before should not be an issue in practice.
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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