From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: [PATCH 4/4] vmscan: delegate page cleaning io to flusher thread if VM pressure is low Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:15:11 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <20100415131420.D17D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20100415013436.GO2493@dastard> <20100415130212.D16E.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Dave Chinner , Mel Gorman , Chris Mason , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: KOSAKI Motohiro Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100415130212.D16E.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Even if pageout() is called from direct reclaim, we can delegate io to flusher thread if vm pressure is low. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro --- mm/vmscan.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 8b78b49..eab6028 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -623,6 +623,13 @@ static enum page_references page_check_references(st= ruct page *page, if (current_is_kswapd()) return PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN; =20 + /* + * Now VM pressure is not so high. then we can delegate + * page cleaning to flusher thread safely. + */ + if (!sc->order && sc->priority > DEF_PRIORITY/2) + return PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN; + return PAGEREF_RECLAIM; } =20 --=20 1.6.5.2 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org