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SubjectRe: [PATCH 09/10] mm: vmscan: Check if kswapd should writepage once per priority
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 05:58:37PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sun 17-03-13 13:04:15, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Currently kswapd checks if it should start writepage as it shrinks
> > each zone without taking into consideration if the zone is balanced or
> > not. This is not wrong as such but it does not make much sense either.
> > This patch checks once per priority if kswapd should be writing pages.
>
> Except it is not once per priority strictly speaking... It doesn't make
> any difference though.
>

Whoops, at one point during development it really was once per priority
which was always raised. I reworded it to "once per pgdat scan".

Thanks.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


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