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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:26:30 +0200
From: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] mm: vmscan: Immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty
	pages when writeback completes
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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>

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:28:49PM +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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

Apart from the naming of the counter (I like nr_reclaim_preferred),

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>

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