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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Document interaction between compaction and the unevictable LRU
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:31:14 -0400 Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> wrote:

> The memory compaction code uses the migration code to do most of the
> work in compaction. However, the compaction code interacts with the
> unevictable LRU differently than migration code and this difference
> should be noted in the documentation.
>
> --- a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
> @@ -450,6 +451,16 @@ list because of a race between munlock and migration, page migration uses the
> putback_lru_page() function to add migrated pages back to the LRU.
>
>
> +COMPACTING MLOCKED PAGES
> +------------------------
> +
> +The unevictable LRU can be scanned for compactable regions and the default
> +behavior is to do so. There is a sysctl to control this behavior (see
> +Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt). Once scanning of the unevictable LRU is
> +enabled, the work of compaction is mostly handled by the page migration code
> +and the same work flow as described in MIGRATING MLOCKED PAGES will apply.
> +

Thanks. Let's tell people what this sysctl is called?


s@There is a sysctl to control@/proc/sys/vm/compact_unevictable_allowed controls@:

--- a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt~document-interaction-between-compaction-and-the-unevictable-lru-fix
+++ a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
@@ -455,10 +455,11 @@ COMPACTING MLOCKED PAGES
------------------------

The unevictable LRU can be scanned for compactable regions and the default
-behavior is to do so. There is a sysctl to control this behavior (see
-Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt). Once scanning of the unevictable LRU is
-enabled, the work of compaction is mostly handled by the page migration code
-and the same work flow as described in MIGRATING MLOCKED PAGES will apply.
+behavior is to do so. /proc/sys/vm/compact_unevictable_allowed controls
+this behavior (see Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt). Once scanning of the
+unevictable LRU is enabled, the work of compaction is mostly handled by
+the page migration code and the same work flow as described in MIGRATING
+MLOCKED PAGES will apply.


mmap(MAP_LOCKED) SYSTEM CALL HANDLING
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