On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 07:08:50PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote: > >@@ -2735,8 +2748,12 @@ static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, > > end_zone = i; > > break; > > } else { > >- /* If balanced, clear the congested flag */ > >+ /* > >+ * If balanced, clear the dirty and congested > >+ * flags > >+ */ > > zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED); > >+ zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_DIRTY); > > Hi Mel, > > There are two places in balance_pgdat clear ZONE_CONGESTED flag, one > is during scan zone which have free_pages <= high_wmark_pages(zone), the > other one is zone get balanced after reclaim, it seems that you miss the > later one. > I did and it's fixed now. Thanks. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- 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>