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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: [patch 1/2] mm: vmscan: fix force-scanning small targets
From:       Andrew Morton <akpm () linux-foundation ! org>
Date:       2011-08-31 23:37:06
Message-ID: 20110831163706.2b7ed5af.akpm () linux-foundation ! org
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:08:39 +0200
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> wrote:

> Andrew,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:31:54PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Without swap, anonymous pages are not scanned.  As such, they should
> > not count when considering force-scanning a small target if there is
> > no swap.
> > 
> > Otherwise, targets are not force-scanned even when their effective
> > scan number is zero and the other conditions--kswapd/memcg--apply.
> 
> I forgot to mention, this patch is a fix for '246e87a memcg: fix
> get_scan_count() for small targets', which went upstream this merge
> window.
> 
> Probably makes sense to merge this one too before the release..?
> 

Ah, I didn't realise that.  Thanks.
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