Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:07:35 +0000 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm: vmscan: Check if kswapd should writepage once per priority |
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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.
-- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
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