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mm: vmscan: immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completes
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:50:08 +0000 (10:50 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:38:30 +0000 (18:38 +1100)
commit2333fc7669a566a765be44498408e9ca62f9d374
tree1aa126ce4a4b71ef5510574ae33e468b56385957
parent8919e1e60a497b8492f856ce52d9620a1cd40b4b
mm: vmscan: immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completes

When direct reclaim encounters a dirty page, it gets recycled around the
LRU for another cycle.  This patch marks the page PageReclaim similar to
deactivate_page() so that the page gets reclaimed almost immediately after
the page gets cleaned.  This is to avoid reclaiming clean pages that are
younger than a dirty page encountered at the end of the LRU that might
have been something like a use-once page.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
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: Andrew Morton <>
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/vmscan.c
mm/vmstat.c