[PATCH] Implement sane 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 Index: linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm1/mm/vmscan.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm1.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2006-01-19 11:18:37.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm1/mm/vmscan.c 2006-01-19 17:52:20.000000000 -0800 @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ static int shrink_list(struct list_head 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 */ @@ -1407,7 +1407,7 @@ int try_to_free_pages(struct zone **zone int i; sc.gfp_mask = gfp_mask; - sc.may_writepage = 0; + sc.may_writepage = !laptop_mode; sc.may_swap = 1; inc_page_state(allocstall); @@ -1510,7 +1510,7 @@ loop_again: total_scanned = 0; total_reclaimed = 0; sc.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL; - sc.may_writepage = 0; + sc.may_writepage = 1; sc.may_swap = 1; sc.nr_mapped = read_page_state(nr_mapped);