Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 7 authors, 2012-11-25

Re: Problem in Page Cache Replacement

From: Metin Döşlü <hidden>
Date: 2012-11-24 15:06:32
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Fengguang Wu [off-list ref] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:07:22PM +0200, Metin Döşlü wrote:
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Jaegeuk Hanse [off-list ref] wrote:
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On 11/21/2012 05:58 PM, metin d wrote:

Hi Fengguang,

I run tests and attached the results. The line below I guess shows the data-1 page caches.

0x000000080000006c       6584051    25718  __RU_lA___________________P________    referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private


I thinks this is just one state of page cache pages.
But why these page caches are in this state as opposed to other page
caches. From the results I conclude that:

data-1 pages are in state : referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private
I wonder if it's this code that stops data-1 pages from being
reclaimed:

shrink_page_list():

                if (page_has_private(page)) {
                        if (!try_to_release_page(page, sc->gfp_mask))
                                goto activate_locked;

What's the filesystem used?
It was ext3.
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data-2 pages are in state : referenced,uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk
Thanks,
Fengguang


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