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mm: vmscan: remove old flusher wakeup from direct reclaim path 

Direct reclaim has been replaced by kswapd reclaim in pretty much all
common memory pressure situations, so this code most likely doesn't
accomplish the described effect anymore.  The previous patch wakes up
flushers for all reclaimers when we encounter dirty pages at the tail
end of the LRU.  Remove the crufty old direct reclaim invocation.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Johannes Weiner 2017-02-24 14:56:17 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 726d061fbd
commit bbef938429
1 changed files with 0 additions and 17 deletions
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@ -2757,8 +2757,6 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
struct scan_control *sc)
{
int initial_priority = sc->priority;
unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
unsigned long writeback_threshold;
retry:
delayacct_freepages_start();
@ -2771,7 +2769,6 @@ retry:
sc->nr_scanned = 0;
shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
break;
@ -2784,20 +2781,6 @@ retry:
*/
if (sc->priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
sc->may_writepage = 1;
/*
* Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned. This
* tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
* disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice. But
* that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
* writeout. So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
*/
writeback_threshold = sc->nr_to_reclaim + sc->nr_to_reclaim / 2;
if (total_scanned > writeback_threshold) {
wakeup_flusher_threads(laptop_mode ? 0 : total_scanned,
WB_REASON_VMSCAN);
sc->may_writepage = 1;
}
} while (--sc->priority >= 0);
delayacct_freepages_end();