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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:08:39 +0200
From: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] mm: vmscan: fix force-scanning small targets without
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Andrew,

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:31:54PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Without swap, anonymous pages are not scanned.  As such, they should
> not count when considering force-scanning a small target if there is
> no swap.
> 
> Otherwise, targets are not force-scanned even when their effective
> scan number is zero and the other conditions--kswapd/memcg--apply.

I forgot to mention, this patch is a fix for '246e87a memcg: fix
get_scan_count() for small targets', which went upstream this merge
window.

Probably makes sense to merge this one too before the release..?

Sorry.