From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: vmscan: Do not stall on writeback during memory compaction
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:26:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F85BEB5.6080702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334162298-18942-3-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>
On 04/11/2012 12:38 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This patch stops reclaim/compaction entering sync reclaim as this was only
> intended for lumpy reclaim and an oversight. Page migration has its own
> logic for stalling on writeback pages if necessary and memory compaction
> is already using it.
>
> Waiting on page writeback is bad for a number of reasons but the primary
> one is that waiting on writeback to a slow device like USB can take a
> considerable length of time. Page reclaim instead uses wait_iff_congested()
> to throttle if too many dirty pages are being scanned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-11 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-11 16:38 [PATCH 0/3] Removal of lumpy reclaim V2 Mel Gorman
2012-04-11 16:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: vmscan: Remove lumpy reclaim Mel Gorman
2012-04-11 17:25 ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-11 18:54 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-04-11 16:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: vmscan: Do not stall on writeback during memory compaction Mel Gorman
2012-04-11 17:26 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-04-11 18:51 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-04-11 16:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: vmscan: Remove reclaim_mode_t Mel Gorman
2012-04-11 17:26 ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-11 19:48 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-04-11 17:17 ` [PATCH 0/3] Removal of lumpy reclaim V2 Rik van Riel
2012-04-11 17:52 ` Mel Gorman
2012-04-11 18:06 ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-12 9:32 ` Mel Gorman
2012-04-11 23:37 ` Ying Han
2012-04-12 5:49 ` Mel Gorman
2012-04-11 23:54 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-04-12 5:44 ` Mel Gorman
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