Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:00:18 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 11:22 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 11:14:32AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > } > > > + if (2 * write_pending <= reclaimable) > > > > That is always true here... > > > > Always true for you or always true in general?
"Here" as in the boxen located at my GPS coordinates :)
> The intent of the check is "are a majority of reclaimable pages > marked WRITE_PENDING?". It's similar to the check that existed prior > to 132b0d21d21f ("mm/page_alloc: remove the throttling logic from the > page allocator").
I'll put my trace_printk() back and see if I can't bend-adjust it.
-Mike
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