linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm, vmscan: Have kswapd reclaim from all zones if reclaiming and buffer_heads_over

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Message-ID: <20160713131001.GC9905@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:10:01 -0400
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm, vmscan: Have kswapd reclaim from all zones if
 reclaiming and buffer_heads_over_limit -fix

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:00:01AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Johannes reported that the comment about buffer_heads_over_limit in
> balance_pgdat only made sense in the context of the patch. This patch
> clarifies the reasoning and how it applies to 32 and 64 bit systems.
> 
> This is a fix to the mmotm patch
> mm-vmscan-have-kswapd-reclaim-from-all-zones-if-reclaiming-and-buffer_heads_over_limit.patch
> 
> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

This is a great comment now, thank you.

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>