On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:51:33 -0800 Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Yosry pointed out [1], where MGLRU used to call this but stopped doing that. It > makes sense to me at least that doing writeback every time we age is too > aggressive, but doing it in evict_folios() makes some sense to me, basically to > copy the behavior the non-MGLRU path (shrink_inactive_list()) has. > > I can send a patch which tries to implement this next week. In the meantime, Yu, Better after working out why flusher failed to do the job, given background writeback and balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(). If pushing kswapd on the back makes any sense, what prevents you from pushing flusher instead, given they are two different things by define? > please let me know if what I've said here makes no sense for some reason. :) > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YzSiWq9UEER5LKup@xxxxxxxxxx/
