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Andrew Morton authored
pagecache can be reclaimed via the page LRU and via prune_icache. We currently don't know how much reclaim is happening via each. The patch adds instrumentation to display the number of pages which were freed via prune_icache. This is displayed in /proc/vmstat:pginodesteal and /proc/vmstat:kswapd_inodesteal. Turns out that under some workloads (well, dbench at least), fully half of page reclaim is via the unused inode list. Which seems quite OK to me.
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