In shrink_page_list a decision may be made to stall and flag a zone as ZONE_WRITEBACK so that if a large number of unqueued dirty pages are encountered later then the reclaimer will stall. Set ZONE_WRITEBACK before potentially going to sleep so it is noticed sooner. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 5b1a79c..5f80d01 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1445,8 +1445,8 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec, */ if (nr_writeback && nr_writeback >= (nr_taken >> (DEF_PRIORITY - sc->priority))) { - wait_iff_congested(zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_WRITEBACK); + wait_iff_congested(zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); } /* -- 1.8.1.4 -- 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>