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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] mm: vmscan: Immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty
	pages when writeback completes
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:53:48 +0200
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To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, XFS <xfs@oss.sgi.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 17:28 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> When direct reclaim encounters a dirty page, it gets recycled around
> the LRU for another cycle. This patch marks the page PageReclaim
> similar to deactivate_page() so that the page gets reclaimed almost
> immediately after the page gets cleaned. This is to avoid reclaiming
> clean pages that are younger than a dirty page encountered at the
> end of the LRU that might have been something like a use-once page.
> 

> @@ -834,7 +834,15 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
>  			 */
>  			if (page_is_file_cache(page) &&
>  					(!current_is_kswapd() || priority >= DEF_PRIORITY - 2)) {
> -				inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_VMSCAN_WRITE_SKIP);
> +				/*
> +				 * Immediately reclaim when written back.
> +				 * Similar in principal to deactivate_page()
> +				 * except we already have the page isolated
> +				 * and know it's dirty
> +				 */
> +				inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_VMSCAN_INVALIDATE);
> +				SetPageReclaim(page);
> +

I find the invalidate name somewhat confusing. It makes me think we'll
drop the page without writeback, like invalidatepage().

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