Re: [PATCH 3/9] mm: remove seemingly spurious reclaimability check from laptop_mode gating

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Wed Mar 01 2017 - 10:18:33 EST


On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 04:40:01PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> 1d82de618ddd ("mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes")
> allowed laptop_mode=1 to start writing not just when the priority
> drops to DEF_PRIORITY - 2 but also when the node is unreclaimable.
> That appears to be a spurious change in this patch as I doubt the
> series was tested with laptop_mode,

laptop_mode was not tested.

> and neither is that particular
> change mentioned in the changelog. Remove it, it's still recent.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>