linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: vmscan: move dirty pages out of the way until they're flushed

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Date:   Fri, 03 Feb 2017 15:42:55 +0800
From:   "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>
To:     "'Johannes Weiner'" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "'Mel Gorman'" <mgorman@...e.de>,
        "'Michal Hocko'" <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "'Minchan Kim'" <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
        "'Rik van Riel'" <riel@...hat.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: vmscan: move dirty pages out of the way until they're flushed


On February 03, 2017 3:20 AM Johannes Weiner wrote: 
> @@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
>  			    PageReclaim(page) &&
>  			    test_bit(PGDAT_WRITEBACK, &pgdat->flags)) {
>  				nr_immediate++;
> -				goto keep_locked;
> +				goto activate_locked;

Out of topic but relevant IMHO, I can't find where it is cleared by grepping:

$ grep -nr PGDAT_WRITEBACK  linux-4.9/mm
linux-4.9/mm/vmscan.c:1019:	test_bit(PGDAT_WRITEBACK, &pgdat->flags)) {
linux-4.9/mm/vmscan.c:1777:	set_bit(PGDAT_WRITEBACK, &pgdat->flags);

It was removed in commit 1d82de618dd 
("mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes")

Is it currently maintained somewhere else, Mel and John?

thanks
Hillf