Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:57:39 +0100 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/8] mm: vmscan: Immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completes |
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:26:30PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > 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), >
At the moment it's NR_VMSCAN_IMMEDIATE and the name visible in /proc/vmstat is nr_vmscan_immediate_reclaim
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Thanks.
-- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
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