Re: [rfc patch 1/6] memcg: remove unused retry signal from reclaim

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu May 12 2011 - 11:38:23 EST


On 05/12/2011 10:53 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
If the memcg reclaim code detects the target memcg below its limit it
exits and returns a guaranteed non-zero value so that the charge is
retried.

Nowadays, the charge side checks the memcg limit itself and does not
rely on this non-zero return value trick.

This patch removes it. The reclaim code will now always return the
true number of pages it reclaimed on its own.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner<hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel<riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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