It is preferable that no dirty pages are dispatched for cleaning from the
commitb6973bddeaec0d077db9dbd22dbf4dacf73e4d4a
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:47:01 +0000 (25 09:47 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:34:18 +0000 (25 15:34 +1000)
treea021acdaa1cde7431594008065e731148e6ea7b8
parenta7209d5ac1c0a74abc5e1a9a6dda6dd1b5bcff7c
It is preferable that no dirty pages are dispatched for cleaning from the
page reclaim path.  At normal priorities, this patch prevents kswapd
writing pages.

However, page reclaim does have a requirement that pages be freed in a
particular zone.  If it is failing to make sufficient progress (reclaiming
< SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX at any priority priority), the priority is raised to
scan more pages.  A priority of DEF_PRIORITY - 3 is considered to be the
point where kswapd is getting into trouble reclaiming pages.  If this
priority is reached, kswapd will dispatch pages for writing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c