linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] buffer: cleanup free_more

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Message-ID: <20170919200509.GA11873@cmpxchg.org>
Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:05:09 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, clm@...com, jack@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] buffer: cleanup free_more_memory() flusher wakeup

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 01:53:02PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> This whole function is... interesting. Change the wakeup call
> to the flusher threads to pass in nr_pages == 0, instead of
> some random number of pages. This matches more closely what
> similar cases do for memory shortage/reclaim.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>

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