Re: [rfc] [patch] mm: zone_reclaim fix for pseudo file systems

Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31T19:18:29Z

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:

> >I am going over my old patchsets anyways. Kiran: Did you have a look at
> >the patches Nick and I did earlier this year for mlocked pages?
>
> Yes. I guess it is good to move unrelclaimable pages off LRU. But we still
> need to not get into reclaim when we don't have pages to reclaim. That is,
> fix the arithmetic here. No?

The arithmetic will be fixed automatically if these pages do not end up
on the LRU.