linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/9] Revert "mm, vmscan: account for skipped pages as a partial scan"

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Message-ID: <078301d29306$2f3f9a70$8dbecf50$@alibaba-inc.com>
Date:   Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:36:31 +0800
From:   "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>
To:     "'Johannes Weiner'" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "'Jia He'" <hejianet@...il.com>, "'Michal Hocko'" <mhocko@...e.cz>,
        "'Mel Gorman'" <mgorman@...e.de>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] Revert "mm, vmscan: account for skipped pages as a partial scan"

On March 01, 2017 5:40 AM Johannes Weiner wrote: 
>  
> This reverts commit d7f05528eedb047efe2288cff777676b028747b6.
> 
> Now that reclaimability of a node is no longer based on the ratio
> between pages scanned and theoretically reclaimable pages, we can
> remove accounting tricks for pages skipped due to zone constraints.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> ---
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>