Re: [PATCH 5/7] mm: vmscan: Do not writeback filesystem pages in kswapd except in high priority

Johannes Weiner
2011-08-10T12:45:14Z

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:47:18AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> It is preferable that no dirty pages are dispatched for cleaning from
> the page reclaim path. At normal priorities, this patch prevents kswapd
> writing pages.
>
> However, page reclaim does have a requirement that pages be freed
> in a particular zone. If it is failing to make sufficient progress
> (reclaiming < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX at any priority priority), the priority
> is raised to scan more pages. A priority of DEF_PRIORITY - 3 is
> considered to be the point where kswapd is getting into trouble
> reclaiming pages. If this priority is reached, kswapd will dispatch
> pages for writing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>

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