[PATCH 7/7] mm: vmscan: Immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completes

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com
Thu Aug 11 04:19:13 CDT 2011


On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:47:20 +0100
Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de> wrote:

> When direct reclaim encounters a dirty page, it gets recycled around
> the LRU for another cycle. This patch marks the page PageReclaim
> similar to deactivate_page() so that the page gets reclaimed almost
> immediately after the page gets cleaned. This is to avoid reclaiming
> clean pages that are younger than a dirty page encountered at the
> end of the LRU that might have been something like a use-once page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner at redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>




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