From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] vmscan: Setup pagevec as late as possible in shrink_inactive_list()
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:59:37 -0400
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References: <1276514273-27693-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1276514273-27693-9-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie>
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@kvack.org, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
        Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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On 06/14/2010 07:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> shrink_inactive_list() sets up a pagevec to release unfreeable pages. It
> uses significant amounts of stack doing this. This patch splits
> shrink_inactive_list() to take the stack usage out of the main path so
> that callers to writepage() do not contain an unused pagevec on the
> stack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mel@csn.ul.ie>
> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner<hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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