Re: [resend][PATCH] mm, vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() livelock

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Tue Jun 19 2012 - 17:17:54 EST


> Who left comment on unreclaimable there, and why?
> /*
> * balance_pgdat() skips over all_unreclaimable after
> * DEF_PRIORITY. Effectively, it considers them balanced so
> * they must be considered balanced here as well if kswapd
> * is to sleep
> */

Thank you for finding this! I'll fix.



> BTW, are you still using prefetch_prev_lru_page?

No. we should kill it. ;-)

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