Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: vmscan: scan dirty pages even in laptop mode

[Minchan Kim]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 01:16:37PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> We have an elaborate dirty/writeback throttling mechanism inside the
> reclaim scanner, but for that to work the pages have to go through
> shrink_page_list() and get counted for what they are. Otherwise, we
> mess up the LRU order and don't match reclaim speed to writeback.
> 
> Especially during deactivation, there is never a reason to skip dirty
> pages; nothing is even trying to write them out from there. Don't mess
> up the LRU order for nothing, shuffle these pages along.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>