Re: [PATCH] 2/5 VM changes: skip-writepage.patch

[Andrew Morton]

Nikita Danilov <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> By the way, have you noted that patch changes wbc.nonblocking to be 0,
>  if called from kswapd or pdflush, what do you think?

pdflush isn't likely to enter direct reclaim much, but it is important that
pdflush not block on request queues.  We want a single pdflush thread to be
able to keep a large number of requests queues saturated.