linux-kernel - [PATCH] synchronous lumpy: improve commentary on writeback wait

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Date:	Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:31:40 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] synchronous lumpy: improve commentary on writeback wait


Improve code commentary on the initial writeback wait in synchronous
reclaim mode.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
---
 mm/vmscan.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index b1e9291..a6e65d0 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -479,6 +479,14 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
 			(PageSwapCache(page) && (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO));
 
 		if (PageWriteback(page)) {
+			/*
+			 * Synchronous reclaim is performed in two passes,
+			 * first an asynchronous pass over the list to
+			 * start parallel writeback, and a second synchronous
+			 * pass to wait for the IO to complete.  Wait here
+			 * for any page for which writeback has already
+			 * started.
+			 */
 			if (sync_writeback == PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC && may_enter_fs)
 				wait_on_page_writeback(page);
 			else
-
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