Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: bail out of page reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Sun Nov 16 2008 - 03:12:00 EST


> > Of course, one thing we could do is exempt kswapd from this check.
> > During light reclaim, kswapd does most of the eviction so scanning
> > should remain balanced. Having one process fall down to a lower
> > priority level is also not a big problem.
> >
> > As long as the direct reclaim processes do not also fall into the
> > same trap, the situation should be manageable.
> >
> > Does that sound reasonable to you?
>
> I'll need to find some time to go dig through the changelogs.

as far as I tried, git database doesn't have that changelogs.
FWIW, I guess it is more old.




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