[PATCH 2/7] mm: vmscan: Remove dead code related to lumpy reclaim waiting on pages under writeback

Johannes Weiner jweiner at redhat.com
Wed Aug 10 07:41:47 CDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:47:15AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Lumpy reclaim worked with two passes - the first which queued pages for
> IO and the second which waited on writeback. As direct reclaim can no
> longer write pages there is some dead code. This patch removes it but
> direct reclaim will continue to wait on pages under writeback while in
> synchronous reclaim mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner at redhat.com>




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