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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:07:35 +0000 From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de> To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz> Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@...sync.net>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, dormando <dormando@...ia.net>, Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@....com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm: vmscan: Check if kswapd should writepage once per priority On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 05:58:37PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Sun 17-03-13 13:04:15, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Currently kswapd checks if it should start writepage as it shrinks > > each zone without taking into consideration if the zone is balanced or > > not. This is not wrong as such but it does not make much sense either. > > This patch checks once per priority if kswapd should be writing pages. > > Except it is not once per priority strictly speaking... It doesn't make > any difference though. > Whoops, at one point during development it really was once per priority which was always raised. I reworded it to "once per pgdat scan". Thanks. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- 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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