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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, XFS <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] ext4: Warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:07:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E440C44.2040600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312973240-32576-5-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>

On 08/10/2011 06:47 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Direct reclaim should never writeback pages. Warn if an attempt
> is made.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@suse.de>

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-11 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-10 10:47 [PATCH 0/7] Reduce filesystem writeback from page reclaim v3 Mel Gorman
2011-08-10 10:47 ` [PATCH 1/7] mm: vmscan: Do not writeback filesystem pages in direct reclaim Mel Gorman
2011-08-10 12:40   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-11  9:03   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-11 15:57   ` Rik van Riel
2011-08-10 10:47 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm: vmscan: Remove dead code related to lumpy reclaim waiting on pages under writeback Mel Gorman
2011-08-10 12:41   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-10 23:19   ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-11  9:05   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-11 16:52   ` Rik van Riel
2011-08-10 10:47 ` [PATCH 3/7] xfs: Warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages Mel Gorman
2011-08-11 16:53   ` Rik van Riel
2011-08-10 10:47 ` [PATCH 4/7] ext4: " Mel Gorman
2011-08-11 17:07   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2011-08-10 10:47 ` [PATCH 5/7] mm: vmscan: Do not writeback filesystem pages in kswapd except in high priority Mel Gorman
2011-08-10 12:44   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-11  9:10   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-11 20:25     ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-17  1:06       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-11 18:18   ` Rik van Riel
2011-08-11 20:38     ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-10 10:47 ` [PATCH 6/7] mm: vmscan: Throttle reclaim if encountering too many dirty pages under writeback Mel Gorman
2011-08-11  9:18   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-12  2:47   ` Rik van Riel
2011-08-16 14:06   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-16 15:02     ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-18 14:02       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-18 23:54   ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-30 13:49     ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-31  9:53     ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-10 10:47 ` [PATCH 7/7] mm: vmscan: Immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completes Mel Gorman
2011-08-10 23:22   ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-11  9:19   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-12 15:27   ` Rik van Riel
2011-08-10 11:00 ` [PATCH 0/7] Reduce filesystem writeback from page reclaim v3 Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-10 11:15   ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-11 23:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-18 23:54 ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-20 19:33   ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-30 13:19   ` Mel Gorman

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