[PATCH] mm: improve function of sc->may_writepage
Make sc->may_writepage control the writeout behavior of shrink_list.
Remove the laptop_mode trick from shrink_list and instead set may_writepage
in try_to_free_pages properly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0ca6007..a29efb2 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@
goto keep_locked;
if (!may_enter_fs)
goto keep_locked;
- if (laptop_mode && !sc->may_writepage)
+ if (!sc->may_writepage)
goto keep_locked;
/* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@
int i;
sc.gfp_mask = gfp_mask;
- sc.may_writepage = 0;
+ sc.may_writepage = !laptop_mode;
sc.may_swap = 1;
inc_page_state(allocstall);
@@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@
total_scanned = 0;
total_reclaimed = 0;
sc.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL;
- sc.may_writepage = 0;
+ sc.may_writepage = !laptop_mode;
sc.may_swap = 1;
sc.nr_mapped = read_page_state(nr_mapped);