[PATCH] vmscan: comment too_many_isolated()

[Wu Fengguang]

Comment "Why it's doing so" rather than "What it does"
as proposed by Andrew Morton.

Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/vmscan.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-next.orig/mm/vmscan.c	2010-10-19 09:29:44.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/mm/vmscan.c	2010-10-19 10:21:41.000000000 +0800
@@ -1142,7 +1142,11 @@ int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page)
 }
 
 /*
- * Are there way too many processes in the direct reclaim path already?
+ * A direct reclaimer may isolate SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages from the LRU list and
+ * then get resheduled. When there are massive number of tasks doing page
+ * allocation, such sleeping direct reclaimers may keep piling up on each CPU,
+ * the LRU list will go small and be scanned faster than necessary, leading to
+ * unnecessary swapping, thrashing and OOM.
  */
 static int too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone, int file,
 		struct scan_control *sc)
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