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Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:30:37 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: vmscan: If kswapd has been running too long,
 allow it to sleep
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On 05/13/2011 10:03 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Under constant allocation pressure, kswapd can be in the situation where
> sleeping_prematurely() will always return true even if kswapd has been
> running a long time. Check if kswapd needs to be scheduled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@suse.de>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>

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