Collect dirty pages and perform writeout when everything else is done. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- mm/vmscan.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/mm/vmscan.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2007-08-19 23:53:43.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6/mm/vmscan.c 2007-08-19 23:53:47.000000000 -0700 @@ -1273,6 +1273,7 @@ static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_da * this zone was successfully refilled to free_pages == pages_high. */ int temp_priority[MAX_NR_ZONES]; + LIST_HEAD(laundry); loop_again: total_scanned = 0; @@ -1347,7 +1348,7 @@ loop_again: temp_priority[i] = priority; sc.nr_scanned = 0; note_zone_scanning_priority(zone, priority); - nr_reclaimed += shrink_zone(priority, zone, &sc, NULL); + nr_reclaimed += shrink_zone(priority, zone, &sc, &laundry); reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0; nr_slab = shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, GFP_KERNEL, lru_pages); @@ -1374,6 +1375,7 @@ loop_again: * OK, kswapd is getting into trouble. Take a nap, then take * another pass across the zones. */ + throttle_vm_writeout(GFP_KERNEL); if (total_scanned && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2) congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10); @@ -1404,7 +1406,8 @@ out: goto loop_again; } - + nr_reclaimed += shrink_page_list(&laundry, &sc, NULL); + release_lru_pages(&laundry); return nr_reclaimed; } -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/