On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:28:49PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > When direct reclaim encounters a dirty page, it gets recycled around > the LRU for another cycle. This patch marks the page PageReclaim > similar to deactivate_page() so that the page gets reclaimed almost > immediately after the page gets cleaned. This is to avoid reclaiming > clean pages that are younger than a dirty page encountered at the > end of the LRU that might have been something like a use-once page. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Apart from the naming of the counter (I like nr_reclaim_preferred), Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>