* wrong comment in do_try_to_free_pages ?
@ 2008-04-24 2:03 minchan Kim
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From: minchan Kim @ 2008-04-24 2:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel, linux-mm, Andrew Morton
static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zone **zones, gfp_t gfp_mask,
struct scan_control *sc)
...
...
/* Take a nap, wait for some writeback to complete */
if (sc->nr_scanned && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
}
/* top priority shrink_caches still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
if (!sc->all_unreclaimable && scan_global_lru(sc))
ret = 1;
out:
/*
....
I think we change shrink_caches commet with shrink_zone.
And I can't understand that's comment.
What's role sc->all_unreclaimable ?
What benefit do we can get with that code ?
If we don't have that code, What's problem happen ?
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Thanks,
barrios
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