Re: [PATCH] 2/5 VM changes: skip-writepage.patch

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 05:46:54 EST


Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM> wrote:
>
> By the way, have you noted that patch changes wbc.nonblocking to be 0,
> if called from kswapd or pdflush, what do you think?

pdflush isn't likely to enter direct reclaim much, but it is important that
pdflush not block on request queues. We want a single pdflush thread to be
able to keep a large number of requests queues saturated.

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