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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>
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:08:03 +0000 (16:08 +1000)
commitfb66e92dfe049c3f29701ea69d504c2755bf8183
treefb0dcafdcb982ee0cae5886f876f7d8a164c6cc6
parent1cd9a0a436688ff48e3cb796b1b2471f8f01f40a
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