Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: vmscan: kick flushers when we encounter dirty pages on the LRU

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Wed Jan 25 2017 - 20:36:28 EST


On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 01:16:38PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Memory pressure can put dirty pages at the end of the LRU without
> anybody running into dirty limits. Don't start writing individual
> pages from kswapd while the flushers might be asleep.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>