On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 01:16:37PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > We have an elaborate dirty/writeback throttling mechanism inside the > reclaim scanner, but for that to work the pages have to go through > shrink_page_list() and get counted for what they are. Otherwise, we > mess up the LRU order and don't match reclaim speed to writeback. > > Especially during deactivation, there is never a reason to skip dirty > pages; nothing is even trying to write them out from there. Don't mess > up the LRU order for nothing, shuffle these pages along. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de> -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
