Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:26:30 +0200 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/8] mm: vmscan: Immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completes |
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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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