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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/8] mm/page_alloc: Remove the throttling logic from the page allocator
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On 10/19/21 11:01, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The page allocator stalls based on the number of pages that are
> waiting for writeback to start but this should now be redundant.
> shrink_inactive_list() will wake flusher threads if the LRU tail are
> unqueued dirty pages so the flusher should be active. If it fails to make
> progress due to pages under writeback not being completed quickly then
> it should stall on VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

(did in v3 already)

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