[BUG?] kflushd launders without washing powder ???

[BUG?] kflushd launders without washing powder ???

[Roger Larsson]

Hi,

I am still experimenting with the VM code.
During this exploration I stumbled into this code,
from kflushd in fs/buffer.c

		flushed = flush_dirty_buffers(0);
		if (free_shortage())
			flushed += page_launder(GFP_BUFFER, 0);

a) GFP_BUFFER is __GFP_HIGH and __GFP_WAIT but not __GFP_IO
   Trying to launder without washing powder???
   Or is it somehow guaranteed that flushed buffers are from
   the same pages?
   Should a GFP_KFLUSHD be introduced - like GFP_KSWAPD ?

b) Where is no_of_inactive_dirty pages balanced against inactive_clean?
   (I have to look some more at this - remove my own patches first...)


/RogerL

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