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mm: vmscan: check if kswapd should writepage once per pgdat scan
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:06:00 +0000 (10:06 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:13:01 +0000 (17:13 +1000)
commit6f196ee80144e27a5d80a933003b36a6763ce257
tree9e1a3fa80cd5d23f82bc129121199c62c531a5ac
parent0a2684a40e9f8c6e0c7a18f7607f890a363f44f6
mm: vmscan: check if kswapd should writepage once per pgdat scan

Currently kswapd checks if it should start writepage as it shrinks each
zone without taking into consideration if the zone is balanced or not.
This is not wrong as such but it does not make much sense either.  This
patch checks once per pgdat scan if kswapd should be writing pages.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c