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Date:   Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:45:39 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To:     js1304@gmail.com
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>, kernel-team@lge.com,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] mm/vmscan: make active/inactive ratio as 1:1 for
 anon lru
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:41:49PM +0900, js1304@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> 
> Current implementation of LRU management for anonymous page has some
> problems. Most important one is that it doesn't protect the workingset,
> that is, pages on the active LRU list. Although, this problem will be
> fixed in the following patchset, the preparation is required and
> this patch does it.
> 
> What following patchset does is to restore workingset protection. In this
> case, newly created or swap-in pages are started their lifetime on the
> inactive list. If inactive list is too small, there is not enough chance
> to be referenced and the page cannot become the workingset.
> 
> In order to provide enough chance to the newly anonymous pages, this patch
> makes active/inactive LRU ratio as 1:1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>