linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: cleanup on the comments of do_try_to_free

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:50:32 +0800
From:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	trivial@...nel.org, Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: cleanup on the comments of
 do_try_to_free_pages

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:25:24AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <liwp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Since lumpy reclaim algorithm is removed by Mel Gorman, cleanup the
> footprint of lumpy reclaim.

I think the "lumpy writeout" here does not mean "lumpy reclaim" :-)

> @@ -2065,8 +2065,9 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  		 * Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned.  This
>  		 * tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
>  		 * disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice.   But
> -		 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
> -		 * writeout.  So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
> +		 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where as much I/O as
> +		 * possible should be trigged if the disk needs to be spun up.
> +		 * So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
>  		 */
>  		writeback_threshold = sc->nr_to_reclaim + sc->nr_to_reclaim / 2;
>  		if (total_scanned > writeback_threshold) {
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/