Re: [patch 1/4] mm: exclude reserved pages from dirtyable memory

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On 09/20/2011 09:45 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
The amount of dirtyable pages should not include the total number of
free pages: there is a number of reserved pages that the page
allocator and kswapd always try to keep free.

The closer (reclaimable pages - dirty pages) is to the number of
reserved pages, the more likely it becomes for reclaim to run into
dirty pages:

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner<jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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