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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/7] mm: vmscan: Immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completes
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    On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> 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>
    > Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>

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    Kind regards,
    Minchan Kim


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