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    mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account · b4597226
    Mel Gorman authored
    
    
    Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
    to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
    begin writing back pages.  This fails to account for buffer pages that
    can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
    filesystems like ext3 ordered mode.  Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
    can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
    be accounted as congested.
    
    This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
    optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
    writeback.  An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
    and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode.  By default the
    page flags are obeyed.
    
    Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
    not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
    problem could be addressed.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
    Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
    Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
    Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
    Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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