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    mm: vmscan: do not writeback filesystem pages in kswapd except in high priority · f84f6e2b
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    It is preferable that no dirty pages are dispatched for cleaning from the
    page reclaim path.  At normal priorities, this patch prevents kswapd
    writing pages.
    
    However, page reclaim does have a requirement that pages be freed in a
    particular zone.  If it is failing to make sufficient progress (reclaiming
    < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX at any priority priority), the priority is raised to
    scan more pages.  A priority of DEF_PRIORITY - 3 is considered to be the
    point where kswapd is getting into trouble reclaiming pages.  If this
    priority is reached, kswapd will dispatch pages for writing.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
    Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
    Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
    Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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