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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/workingset.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/workingset.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c index 3025beee9b34..817758951886 100644 --- a/mm/workingset.c +++ b/mm/workingset.c @@ -111,9 +111,20 @@ * * NR_inactive + (R - E) <= NR_inactive + NR_active * - * which can be further simplified to + * If we have swap we should consider about NR_inactive_anon and + * NR_active_anon, so for page cache and anonymous respectively: * - * (R - E) <= NR_active + * NR_inactive_file + (R - E) <= NR_inactive_file + NR_active_file + * + NR_inactive_anon + NR_active_anon + * + * NR_inactive_anon + (R - E) <= NR_inactive_anon + NR_active_anon + * + NR_inactive_file + NR_active_file + * + * Which can be further simplified to: + * + * (R - E) <= NR_active_file + NR_inactive_anon + NR_active_anon + * + * (R - E) <= NR_active_anon + NR_inactive_file + NR_active_file * * Put into words, the refault distance (out-of-cache) can be seen as * a deficit in inactive list space (in-cache). If the inactive list @@ -130,14 +141,14 @@ * are no longer in active use. * * So when a refault distance of (R - E) is observed and there are at - * least (R - E) active pages, the refaulting page is activated - * optimistically in the hope that (R - E) active pages are actually + * least (R - E) pages in the userspace workingset, the refaulting page + * is activated optimistically in the hope that (R - E) pages are actually * used less frequently than the refaulting page - or even not used at * all anymore. * * That means if inactive cache is refaulting with a suitable refault * distance, we assume the cache workingset is transitioning and put - * pressure on the current active list. + * pressure on the current workingset. * * If this is wrong and demotion kicks in, the pages which are truly * used more frequently will be reactivated while the less frequently @@ -469,7 +480,7 @@ void workingset_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow) * don't activate pages that couldn't stay resident even if * all the memory was available to the workingset. Whether * workingset competition needs to consider anon or not depends - * on having swap. + * on having free swap space. */ workingset_size = lruvec_page_state(eviction_lruvec, NR_ACTIVE_FILE); if (!file) { |