Re: [PATCH 08/12] vmscan: Setup pagevec as late as possible in shrink_inactive_list()

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Mon Jun 14 2010 - 15:00:17 EST


On 06/14/2010 07:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
shrink_inactive_list() sets up a pagevec to release unfreeable pages. It
uses significant amounts of stack doing this. This patch splits
shrink_inactive_list() to take the stack usage out of the main path so
that callers to writepage() do not contain an unused pagevec on the
stack.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner<hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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