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From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org,
	Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: cleanup on the comments of do_try_to_free_pages
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:50:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120615025032.GA8250@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339723524-6332-1-git-send-email-liwp.linux@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:25:24AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Since lumpy reclaim algorithm is removed by Mel Gorman, cleanup the
> footprint of lumpy reclaim.

I think the "lumpy writeout" here does not mean "lumpy reclaim" :-)

> @@ -2065,8 +2065,9 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  		 * Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned.  This
>  		 * tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
>  		 * disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice.   But
> -		 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
> -		 * writeout.  So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
> +		 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where as much I/O as
> +		 * possible should be trigged if the disk needs to be spun up.
> +		 * So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
>  		 */
>  		writeback_threshold = sc->nr_to_reclaim + sc->nr_to_reclaim / 2;
>  		if (total_scanned > writeback_threshold) {
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
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From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org,
	Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: cleanup on the comments of do_try_to_free_pages
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:50:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120615025032.GA8250@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339723524-6332-1-git-send-email-liwp.linux@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:25:24AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Since lumpy reclaim algorithm is removed by Mel Gorman, cleanup the
> footprint of lumpy reclaim.

I think the "lumpy writeout" here does not mean "lumpy reclaim" :-)

> @@ -2065,8 +2065,9 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  		 * Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned.  This
>  		 * tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
>  		 * disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice.   But
> -		 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
> -		 * writeout.  So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
> +		 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where as much I/O as
> +		 * possible should be trigged if the disk needs to be spun up.
> +		 * So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
>  		 */
>  		writeback_threshold = sc->nr_to_reclaim + sc->nr_to_reclaim / 2;
>  		if (total_scanned > writeback_threshold) {
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-15  2:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-15  1:25 [PATCH] mm/vmscan: cleanup on the comments of do_try_to_free_pages Wanpeng Li
2012-06-15  1:25 ` Wanpeng Li
2012-06-15  2:50 ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
2012-06-15  2:50   ` Fengguang Wu

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