Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934110AbbGUXfG (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:35:06 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44158 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933511AbbGUXfB (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:35:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:35:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla , Minchan Kim , Raghavendra K T , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Greg Thelen , Michel Lespinasse , David Rientjes , Pavel Emelyanov , Cyrill Gorcunov , Jonathan Corbet , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm v9 7/8] proc: export idle flag via kpageflags Message-Id: <20150721163500.528bd39bbbc71abc3c8d429b@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4c1eb396150ee14d7c3abf1a6f36ec8cc9dd9435.1437303956.git.vdavydov@parallels.com> References: <4c1eb396150ee14d7c3abf1a6f36ec8cc9dd9435.1437303956.git.vdavydov@parallels.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 954 Lines: 20 On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:31:16 +0300 Vladimir Davydov wrote: > As noted by Minchan, a benefit of reading idle flag from > /proc/kpageflags is that one can easily filter dirty and/or unevictable > pages while estimating the size of unused memory. > > Note that idle flag read from /proc/kpageflags may be stale in case the > page was accessed via a PTE, because it would be too costly to iterate > over all page mappings on each /proc/kpageflags read to provide an > up-to-date value. To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read > /proc/kpageidle first. Is there any value in teaching the regular old page scanner to update these flags? If it's doing an rmap scan anyway... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/