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Message-ID: <20110803112630.GE27199@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:26:30 +0200 From: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com> To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de> Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, XFS <xfs@....sgi.com>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] mm: vmscan: Immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completes On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:28:49PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > When direct reclaim encounters a dirty page, it gets recycled around > the LRU for another cycle. This patch marks the page PageReclaim > similar to deactivate_page() so that the page gets reclaimed almost > immediately after the page gets cleaned. This is to avoid reclaiming > clean pages that are younger than a dirty page encountered at the > end of the LRU that might have been something like a use-once page. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de> Apart from the naming of the counter (I like nr_reclaim_preferred), Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com> -- 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/
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