Re: [PATCH 8/8] vmscan: Kick flusher threads to clean pages when reclaim is encountering dirty pages

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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 02:11:30PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * If reclaim is encountering dirty pages, it may be because
> +	 * dirty pages are reaching the end of the LRU even though
> +	 * the dirty_ratio may be satisified. In this case, wake
> +	 * flusher threads to pro-actively clean some pages
> +	 */
> +	wakeup_flusher_threads(laptop_mode ? 0 : nr_dirty + nr_dirty / 2);
> +

Where is the laptop-mode magic coming from?

And btw, at least currently wakeup_flusher_threads writes back nr_pages
for each BDI, which might not be what you want.  Then again probably
no caller wants it, but I don't see an easy way to fix it.

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