On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:17:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > As it stands, it would be wildly incautious to make a change like > this without first working out why we're pulling so many dirty pages > off the LRU tail, and fixing that. Note that unlike the writepage vs writepages from kswapd which can be fixed by the right tuning this is a black or white issue. Writeback from direct reclaim will kill your stack if the caller happens to be the wrong one, and just making it happen less often is not a fix - it must not happen at all. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>