Re: [patch 4/8] mm: vmscan: clarify LRU balancing close to OOM

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu Dec 13 2012 - 05:45:52 EST


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:43:36PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> There are currently several inter-LRU balancing heuristics that simply
> get disabled when the reclaimer is at the last reclaim cycle before
> giving up, but the code is quite cumbersome and not really obvious.
>
> Make the heuristics visibly unreachable for the last reclaim cycle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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