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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:34:50 +0100
Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> c) If direct reclaim did reasonable progress in try_to_free but did not
> get a page, AND there is no write in flight at all then let it try again
> to free up something.
> This could be extended by some kind of max retry to avoid some weird
> looping cases as well.
>
> d) Another way might be as easy as letting congestion_wait return
> immediately if there are no outstanding writes - this would keep the
> behavior for cases with write and avoid the "running always in full
> timeout" issue without writes.

They're pretty much equivalent and would work. But there are two
things I still don't understand:

1: Why is direct reclaim calling congestion_wait() at all? If no
writes are going on there's lots of clean pagecache around so reclaim
should trivially succeed. What's preventing it from doing so?

2: This is, I think, new behaviour. A regression. What caused it?



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