Thread (32 messages) 32 messages, 10 authors, 2011-11-11

Re: [PATCH 2/2] vmscan: activate executable pages after first usage

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-09 00:06:14
Also in: lkml

On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 15:07:00 +0400
Konstantin Khlebnikov [off-list ref] wrote:
Logic added in commit v2.6.30-5507-g8cab475
(vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen)
was noticeably weakened in commit v2.6.33-5448-g6457474
(vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once)

Currently these pages can become "first class citizens" only after second usage.

After this patch page_check_references() will activate they after first usage,
and executable code gets yet better chance to stay in memory.

TODO:
run some cool tests like in v2.6.30-5507-g8cab475 =)

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <redacted>
How effective does this work on your test ?


quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 mm/vmscan.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 3cd766d..29b3612 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -727,6 +727,12 @@ static enum page_references page_check_references(struct page *page,
 		if (referenced_page || referenced_ptes > 1)
 			return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
 
+		/*
+		 * Activate file-backed executable pages after first usage.
+		 */
+		if (vm_flags & VM_EXEC)
+			return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
+
 		return PAGEREF_KEEP;
 	}
 
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