On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:43:35PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> In certain cases (kswapd reclaim, memcg target reclaim), a fixed
> minimum amount of pages is scanned from the LRU lists on each
> iteration, to make progress.
> 
> Do not make this minimum bigger than the respective LRU list size,
> however, and save some busy work trying to isolate and reclaim pages
> that are not there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>

This looks like a corner case where the LRU size would have to be smaller
than SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX. Is that common enough to care? It looks correct,
I'm just curious.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>

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SUSE Labs
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