On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 01:16:37PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > We have an elaborate dirty/writeback throttling mechanism inside the > reclaim scanner, but for that to work the pages have to go through > shrink_page_list() and get counted for what they are. Otherwise, we > mess up the LRU order and don't match reclaim speed to writeback. > > Especially during deactivation, there is never a reason to skip dirty > pages; nothing is even trying to write them out from there. Don't mess > up the LRU order for nothing, shuffle these pages along. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
