On 09/20/2011 09:45 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
The amount of dirtyable pages should not include the total number of free pages: there is a number of reserved pages that the page allocator and kswapd always try to keep free. The closer (reclaimable pages - dirty pages) is to the number of reserved pages, the more likely it becomes for reclaim to run into dirty pages:
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner<jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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