On 08/10/2011 06:47 AM, 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> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner<jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
I'm thinking we may need to add some code to ClearPageReclaim to mark_page_accessed, but that would be completely independent of these patches, so ... Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> -- All rights reversed _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
