Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4/8] mm: vmscan: Set zone flags before blocking | Date | Thu, 30 May 2013 00:17:33 +0100 |
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In shrink_page_list a decision may be made to stall and flag a zone as ZONE_WRITEBACK so that if a large number of unqueued dirty pages are encountered later then the reclaimer will stall. Set ZONE_WRITEBACK before potentially going to sleep so it is noticed sooner.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 5b1a79c..5f80d01 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1445,8 +1445,8 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec, */ if (nr_writeback && nr_writeback >= (nr_taken >> (DEF_PRIORITY - sc->priority))) { - wait_iff_congested(zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_WRITEBACK); + wait_iff_congested(zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); } /* -- 1.8.1.4
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