linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/8] mm: vmscan: clarify LRU balancing close to OOM

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Message-ID: <20121213104600.GY1009@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:46:00 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] mm: vmscan: clarify LRU balancing close to OOM

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:43:36PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> There are currently several inter-LRU balancing heuristics that simply
> get disabled when the reclaimer is at the last reclaim cycle before
> giving up, but the code is quite cumbersome and not really obvious.
> 
> Make the heuristics visibly unreachable for the last reclaim cycle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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