Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm: vmscan: Remove dead code related to lumpy reclaimwaiting on pages under writeback

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Wed Aug 10 2011 - 19:20:00 EST


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lumpy reclaim worked with two passes - the first which queued pages for
> IO and the second which waited on writeback. As direct reclaim can no
> longer write pages there is some dead code. This patch removes it but
> direct reclaim will continue to wait on pages under writeback while in
> synchronous reclaim mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>


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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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