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SubjectRe: [PATCH 8/8] vmscan: Kick flusher threads to clean pages when reclaim is encountering dirty pages
On 07/19/2010 09:11 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> There are a number of cases where pages get cleaned but two of concern
> to this patch are;
> o When dirtying pages, processes may be throttled to clean pages if
> dirty_ratio is not met.
> o Pages belonging to inodes dirtied longer than
> dirty_writeback_centisecs get cleaned.
>
> The problem for reclaim is that dirty pages can reach the end of the LRU
> if pages are being dirtied slowly so that neither the throttling cleans
> them or a flusher thread waking periodically.

I can't see a better way to do this without creating
a way-too-big-to-merge patch series, and this patch
should result in the right behaviour, so ...

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>



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