From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:36:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [rfc] [patch] mm: zone_reclaim fix for pseudo file systems In-Reply-To: <20070730192721.eb220a9d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20070727232753.GA10311@localdomain> <20070730132314.f6c8b4e1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070731000138.GA32468@localdomain> <20070730172007.ddf7bdee.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070731015647.GC32468@localdomain> <20070730192721.eb220a9d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai , linux-mm@kvack.org, shai@scalex86.org List-ID: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > That makes sense, but any fix we do here won't fix things for regular > reclaim. Standard reclaim has the same issues. It uselessly keeps scanning the unreclaimable file backed pages. Fixing this will also enhance regular reclaim. > - account file-backed pages, BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY pages and > BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK separately. ie: zone accounting pretty > much follows the BDI_CAP_ selectors. Or BDI_CAP_UNRECLAIMABLE.... -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org