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Johannes Weiner fbbb602e40 mm: deactivations shouldn't bias the LRU balance
Operations like MADV_FREE, FADV_DONTNEED etc.  currently move any affected
active pages to the inactive list to accelerate their reclaim (good) but
also steer page reclaim toward that LRU type, or away from the other
(bad).

The reason why this is undesirable is that such operations are not part of
the regular page aging cycle, and rather a fluke that doesn't say much
about the remaining pages on that list; they might all be in heavy use,
and once the chunk of easy victims has been purged, the VM continues to
apply elevated pressure on those remaining hot pages.  The other LRU,
meanwhile, might have easily reclaimable pages, and there was never a need
to steer away from it in the first place.

As the previous patch outlined, we should focus on recording actually
observed cost to steer the balance rather than speculating about the
potential value of one LRU list over the other.  In that spirit, leave
explicitely deactivated pages to the LRU algorithm to pick up, and let
rotations decide which list is the easiest to reclaim.

[cai@lca.pw: fix set-but-not-used warning]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200522133335.GA624@Qians-MacBook-Air.local
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-10-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-03 20:09:49 -07:00
arch mm/hugetlb: define a generic fallback for arch_clear_hugepage_flags() 2020-06-03 20:09:46 -07:00
block for-5.8/drivers-2020-06-01 2020-06-02 15:37:03 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: engine - do not requeue in case of fatal error 2020-05-28 17:27:52 +10:00
Documentation mm: allow swappiness that prefers reclaiming anon over the file workingset 2020-06-03 20:09:48 -07:00
drivers drm/i915: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages() 2020-06-03 20:09:42 -07:00
fs mm: fold and remove lru_cache_add_anon() and lru_cache_add_file() 2020-06-03 20:09:48 -07:00
include mm: base LRU balancing on an explicit cost model 2020-06-03 20:09:48 -07:00
init mm: memcontrol: make swap tracking an integral part of memory control 2020-06-03 20:09:48 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-14 10:00:35 -07:00
kernel mm: allow swappiness that prefers reclaiming anon over the file workingset 2020-06-03 20:09:48 -07:00
lib kasan: stop tests being eliminated as dead code with FORTIFY_SOURCE 2020-06-03 20:09:42 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm: deactivations shouldn't bias the LRU balance 2020-06-03 20:09:49 -07:00
net audit/stable-5.8 PR 20200601 2020-06-02 17:13:37 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'from-miklos' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-06-01 16:44:06 -07:00
scripts A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another massive 2020-06-01 15:45:27 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2020-06-02 17:36:24 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-06-02 12:21:36 -07:00
tools khugepaged: introduce 'max_ptes_shared' tunable 2020-06-03 20:09:46 -07:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another massive 2020-06-01 15:45:27 -07:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda 2020-05-25 18:59:59 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS for-5.8/drivers-2020-06-01 2020-06-02 15:37:03 -07:00
Makefile arm64 updates for 5.8 2020-06-01 15:18:27 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.