On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:25:24AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <liwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Since lumpy reclaim algorithm is removed by Mel Gorman, cleanup the
> footprint of lumpy reclaim.
I think the "lumpy writeout" here does not mean "lumpy reclaim" :-)
> @@ -2065,8 +2065,9 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
> * Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned. This
> * tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
> * disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice. But
> - * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
> - * writeout. So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
> + * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where as much I/O as
> + * possible should be trigged if the disk needs to be spun up.
> + * So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
> */
> writeback_threshold = sc->nr_to_reclaim + sc->nr_to_reclaim / 2;
> if (total_scanned > writeback_threshold) {
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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