From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: VM 8/8 shrink_list(): set PG_reclaimed
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:27:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114493245.25240.4.camel@npiggin-nld.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050425212911.31cf6b43.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 21:29 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > set PG_reclaimed bit on pages that are under writeback when shrink_list()
> > looks at them: these pages are at end of the inactive list, and it only makes
> > sense to reclaim them as soon as possible when writeout finishes.
> >
>
> Makes sense, I guess. It would be nice to know how many pages actually get
> this treatment, and under what situations.
>
> To address the race which Nick identified I think we can do it this way?
>
I did the same patch a while back and I had a feeling this didn't work
either. I can't immediately see a race... but don't put this one in
2.6.12!
I agree it makes sense.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-26 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-17 17:38 Nikita Danilov
2005-04-18 1:13 ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-18 16:18 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-04-26 4:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 5:27 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-04-26 5:48 ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-26 10:16 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-04-26 10:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 10:32 ` Nick Piggin
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