Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 2010 15:38:09 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/14] vmscan: Do not writeback pages in direct reclaim | From | Minchan Kim <> |
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On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:02 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:36 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro >> <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> >> Ok, that's reasonable as I'm still working on that patch. For example, the >> >> patch disabled anonymous page writeback which is unnecessary as the stack >> >> usage for anon writeback is less than file writeback. >> > >> > How do we examine swap-on-file? >> >> bool is_swap_on_file(struct page *page) >> { >> struct swap_info_struct *p; >> swp_entry_entry entry; >> entry.val = page_private(page); >> p = swap_info_get(entry); >> return !(p->flags & SWP_BLKDEV) >> } > > Well, do you suggested we traverse all pages in lru _before_ > starting vmscan? >
No. I don't suggest anything. What I say is just we can do it. If we have to implement it, Couldn't we do it in write_reclaim_page?
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