linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/9] mm: remove seemingly spurious reclaimability check from laptop

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Date:   Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:40:01 -0500
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Jia He <hejianet@...il.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: [PATCH 3/9] mm: remove seemingly spurious reclaimability check from laptop_mode gating

1d82de618ddd ("mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes")
allowed laptop_mode=1 to start writing not just when the priority
drops to DEF_PRIORITY - 2 but also when the node is unreclaimable.
That appears to be a spurious change in this patch as I doubt the
series was tested with laptop_mode, and neither is that particular
change mentioned in the changelog. Remove it, it's still recent.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index f006140f58c6..911957b66622 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3288,7 +3288,7 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
 		 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing writepage
 		 * even in laptop mode.
 		 */
-		if (sc.priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2 || !pgdat_reclaimable(pgdat))
+		if (sc.priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
 			sc.may_writepage = 1;
 
 		/* Call soft limit reclaim before calling shrink_node. */
-- 
2.11.1