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Message-ID: <4EEABC4D.7070706@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:34:37 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	Nai Xia <nai.xia@...il.com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware
 again

On 12/14/2011 10:41 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Commit [39deaf85: mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware]
> noted that compaction does not migrate dirty or writeback pages and
> that is was meaningless to pick the page and re-add it to the LRU list.
> This had to be partially reverted because some dirty pages can be
> migrated by compaction without blocking.
>
> This patch updates "mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page" by skipping
> over pages that migration has no possibility of migrating to minimise
> LRU disruption.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@...e.de>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@...hat.com>

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