Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm: vmscan: Check if kswapd should writepage onceper priority

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Mar 21 2013 - 15:55:25 EST


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 <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

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

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