* KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hir...@jp.fujitsu.com> [2011-01-28 17:17:44]:

> On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:49:28 +0530
> Balbir Singh <bal...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > * KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hir...@jp.fujitsu.com> [2011-01-28 16:56:05]:
> 
> > > BTW, it seems this doesn't work when some apps use huge shmem.
> > > How to handle the issue ?
> > >
> > 
> > Could you elaborate further? 
> > 
> ==
> static inline unsigned long zone_unmapped_file_pages(struct zone *zone)
> {
>         unsigned long file_mapped = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED);
>         unsigned long file_lru = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
>                 zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
> 
>         /*
>          * It's possible for there to be more file mapped pages than
>          * accounted for by the pages on the file LRU lists because
>          * tmpfs pages accounted for as ANON can also be FILE_MAPPED
>          */
>         return (file_lru > file_mapped) ? (file_lru - file_mapped) : 0;
> }

Yes, I did :) The word huge confused me. I am not sure if there is an
easy accounting fix for this one, though given the approximate nature
of the control, I am not sure it would matter very much. But you do
have a very good point.

-- 
        Three Cheers,
        Balbir
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