From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: vmscan: If kswapd has been running too long,
 allow it to sleep
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 08:54:33 +0900
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>> I've already submitted a pair of patches for option 1. I don't think
>> option 2 gains us anything. I think it's more likely we should worry
>> about all_unreclaimable being set when shrink_slab is returning 0 and we
>> are encountering so many dirty pages that pages_scanned is high enough.
>
> Okay.
>
> Colin reported he had no problem with patch 1 in this series and
> mine(ie, just cond_resched right after balance_pgdat call without no
> patch of shrink_slab).
>
> If Colin's test is successful, I don't insist on mine.
> (I don't want to drag on for days :( )
> If KOSAKI agree, let's ask the test to Colin and confirm our last test.
>
> KOSAKI. Could you post a your opinion?

Yeah.
I also don't have any motivation to ignore Colin's test result.

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