On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 15:58 -0400, Ashif Harji wrote: > This patch unconditionally calls mark_page_accessed to prevent pages, > especially for small files, from being evicted from the page cache despite > frequent access.
I guess the downside to this is if a reader is reading a large file, or several files, sequentially with a small read size (smaller than PAGE_SIZE), the pages will be marked active after just one read pass. My gut says the benefits of this patch outweigh the cost. I would expect real-world backup apps, etc. to read at least PAGE_SIZE. Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
