On 08/10/2011 06:47 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:

When direct reclaim encounters a dirty page, it gets recycled around
the LRU for another cycle. This patch marks the page PageReclaim
similar to deactivate_page() so that the page gets reclaimed almost
immediately after the page gets cleaned. This is to avoid reclaiming
clean pages that are younger than a dirty page encountered at the
end of the LRU that might have been something like a use-once page.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner<redacted>

I'm thinking we may need to add some code to
ClearPageReclaim to mark_page_accessed, but
that would be completely independent of these
patches, so ...

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <redacted>

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