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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/7] mm: vmscan: Immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completes
    On 08/10/2011 06:47 AM, 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>
    > Acked-by: Johannes Weiner<jweiner@redhat.com>

    I'm thinking we may need to add some code to
    ClearPageReclaim to mark_page_accessed, but
    that would be completely independent of these
    patches, so ...

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

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