From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752612Ab3CUTzR (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:55:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:11186 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752394Ab3CUTzP (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:55:15 -0400 Message-ID: <514B6501.80102@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:52:33 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman CC: Linux-MM , Jiri Slaby , Valdis Kletnieks , Zlatko Calusic , Johannes Weiner , dormando , Satoru Moriya , Michal Hocko , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm: vmscan: Check if kswapd should writepage once per priority References: <1363525456-10448-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1363525456-10448-10-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1363525456-10448-10-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/17/2013 09:04 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > Currently kswapd checks if it should start writepage as it shrinks > each zone without taking into consideration if the zone is balanced or > not. This is not wrong as such but it does not make much sense either. > This patch checks once per priority if kswapd should be writing pages. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx204.postini.com [74.125.245.204]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07E5A6B0002 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:53:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <514B6501.80102@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:52:33 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm: vmscan: Check if kswapd should writepage once per priority References: <1363525456-10448-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1363525456-10448-10-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1363525456-10448-10-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux-MM , Jiri Slaby , Valdis Kletnieks , Zlatko Calusic , Johannes Weiner , dormando , Satoru Moriya , Michal Hocko , LKML On 03/17/2013 09:04 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > Currently kswapd checks if it should start writepage as it shrinks > each zone without taking into consideration if the zone is balanced or > not. This is not wrong as such but it does not make much sense either. > This patch checks once per priority if kswapd should be writing pages. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- 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