linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] vmscan: synchronous lumpy reclaim don't call congestion

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Date:	Thu, 5 Aug 2010 22:55:04 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] vmscan: synchronous lumpy reclaim don't call
 congestion_wait()

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 03:13:03PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> congestion_wait() mean "waiting quueue congestion is cleared".
> That said, if the system have plenty dirty pages and flusher thread push
> new request to IO queue conteniously, IO queue are not cleared
> congestion status for long time. thus, congestion_wait(HZ/10) become
> almostly equivalent schedule_timeout(HZ/10).
> 
> However, synchronous lumpy reclaim donesn't need this
> congestion_wait() at all. shrink_page_list(PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC) are
> using wait_on_page_writeback() and it provide sufficient waiting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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