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SubjectRe: [patch 02/11] mm: vmscan: distinguish global reclaim from global LRU scanning
On Mon 19-09-11 15:23:44, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 12-09-11 12:57:19, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > The traditional zone reclaim code is scanning the per-zone LRU lists
> > during direct reclaim and kswapd, and the per-zone per-memory cgroup
> > LRU lists when reclaiming on behalf of a memory cgroup limit.
> >
> > Subsequent patches will convert the traditional reclaim code to
> > reclaim exclusively from the per-memory cgroup LRU lists. As a
> > result, using the predicate for which LRU list is scanned will no
> > longer be appropriate to tell global reclaim from limit reclaim.
> >
> > This patch adds a global_reclaim() predicate to tell direct/kswapd
> > reclaim from memory cgroup limit reclaim and substitutes it in all
> > places where currently scanning_global_lru() is used for that.
>
> I am wondering about vmscan_swappiness. Shouldn't it use global_reclaim
> instead?

Ahh, it looks like the next patch does that. Wouldn't it make more sense
to have that change here? I see that this makes the patch smaller but...
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Michal Hocko
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