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SubjectRe: [PATCH 12/14] vmscan: Do not writeback pages in direct reclaim
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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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Minchan Kim
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