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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lee.schermerhorn@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 07/25] second chance replacement for anonymous pages
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:43:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080606234314.265f5005.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080607150154.9C55.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:03:42 +0900 KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > > + * pages.  Ie. a ratio of 3 means 3:1 or 25% of the anonymous pages are
> > > + * on the inactive list.
> > > + *
> > > + * total     return    max
> > > + * memory    value     inactive anon
> > 
> > This function doesn't "return" a "value".
> 
> Sorry, my bad.
> 
> in my country, "return value" is right word.

Not for a function which returns void!

> s/value/ratio/ is better?

Well it's referring to the value of zone->inactive_ratio.  So
replacing "return value" with "zone->inactive_ratio" would be ideal :)

> > 
> > > + * -------------------------------------
> > > + *   10MB       1         5MB
> > > + *  100MB       1        50MB
> > > + *    1GB       3       250MB
> > > + *   10GB      10       0.9GB
> > > + *  100GB      31         3GB
> > > + *    1TB     101        10GB
> > > + *   10TB     320        32GB
> > > + */
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-07  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-06 20:28 [PATCH -mm 00/25] VM pageout scalability improvements (V10) Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 01/25] move isolate_lru_page() to vmscan.c Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 02/25] Use an indexed array for LRU variables Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:04   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-07  5:43     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-07 14:47       ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-08 11:22         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-07 18:42     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 03/25] use an array for the LRU pagevecs Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 04/25] free swap space on swap-in/activation Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:04   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-07 19:56     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-09  2:14     ` MinChan Kim
2008-06-09  2:42       ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-09 13:38       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-10  2:30         ` MinChan Kim
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 05/25] define page_file_cache() function Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:04   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-07 23:38     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 06/25] split LRU lists into anon & file sets Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:04   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-07  1:22     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:52       ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 07/25] second chance replacement for anonymous pages Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:04   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-07  6:03     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-07  6:43       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-06-08 15:04     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 08/25] add some sanity checks to get_scan_ratio Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:04   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08 15:11     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 09/25] fix pagecache reclaim referenced bit check Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:04   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-07  1:08     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-08 10:02       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 10/25] add newly swapped in pages to the inactive list Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:04   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 11/25] more aggressively use lumpy reclaim Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:05   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 12/25] pageflag helpers for configed-out flags Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 13/25] Noreclaim LRU Infrastructure Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:05   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08 20:34     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-08 20:57       ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08 21:32         ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-08 21:43           ` Ray Lee
2008-06-08 23:22           ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08 23:34             ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-08 23:54               ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09  0:56                 ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-09  6:10                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09 13:44                     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-09  2:58                 ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-09  5:44                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10 19:17                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-10 19:37                   ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-10 21:33                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10 21:48                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-10 22:05                       ` Dave Hansen
2008-06-11  5:09                       ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-11  6:16                         ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11  6:29                           ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-11 12:06                           ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-11 14:09                           ` Removing node flags from page->flags was Re: [PATCH -mm 13/25] Noreclaim LRU Infrastructure II Andi Kleen
2008-06-11 19:03                       ` [PATCH -mm 13/25] Noreclaim LRU Infrastructure Andy Whitcroft
2008-06-11 20:52                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-11 23:25                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-08 22:03         ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-08 21:07       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-10 20:09     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 14/25] Noreclaim LRU Page Statistics Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 15/25] Ramfs and Ram Disk pages are non-reclaimable Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:05   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08  4:32     ` Greg KH
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 16/25] SHM_LOCKED " Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:05   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-07  5:21     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-10 21:03     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-10 21:22       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-06-10 21:49         ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 17/25] Mlocked Pages " Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:07   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-07  5:38     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-10  3:31     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-10 12:50       ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-10 21:14       ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-10 21:43         ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-06-10 21:57           ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11 16:01             ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-06-10 23:48           ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-11 15:29             ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-06-11  1:00     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 18/25] Downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 19/25] Handle mlocked pages during map, remap, unmap Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 20/25] Mlocked Pages statistics Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 21/25] Cull non-reclaimable pages in fault path Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:29 ` [PATCH -mm 22/25] Noreclaim and Mlocked pages vm events Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:29 ` [PATCH -mm 23/25] Noreclaim LRU scan sysctl Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:29 ` [PATCH -mm 24/25] Mlocked Pages: count attempts to free mlocked page Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:29 ` [PATCH -mm 25/25] Noreclaim LRU and Mlocked Pages Documentation Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 21:02 ` [PATCH -mm 00/25] VM pageout scalability improvements (V10) Andrew Morton
2008-06-06 21:08   ` Rik van Riel

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