Re: [patch 0/2] mm: reduce reclaim stalls with heavy anon and dirtycache

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jan 24 2014 - 17:30:20 EST


On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:03:02 -0500 Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tejun reported stuttering and latency spikes on a system where random
> tasks would enter direct reclaim and get stuck on dirty pages. Around
> 50% of memory was occupied by tmpfs backed by an SSD, and another disk
> (rotating) was reading and writing at max speed to shrink a partition.

Do you think this is serious enough to squeeze these into 3.14?
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