On 10/19/21 11:01, Mel Gorman wrote: > The page allocator stalls based on the number of pages that are > waiting for writeback to start but this should now be redundant. > shrink_inactive_list() will wake flusher threads if the LRU tail are > unqueued dirty pages so the flusher should be active. If it fails to make > progress due to pages under writeback not being completed quickly then > it should stall on VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> (did in v3 already)
