From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Zdenek Kaspar <zkaspar82@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Consider for longterm kernels: mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:57:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347209830.7709.39.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5038E7AA.5030107@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 16:56 +0200, Zdenek Kaspar wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=fe35004fbf9eaf67482b074a2e032abb9c89b1dd
>
> In short: this patch seems beneficial for users trying to avoid memory
> swapping at all costs but they want to keep swap for emergency reasons.
>
> More details: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/2/320
>
> Its included in 3.5, so could this be considered for -longterm kernels ?
Andrew, Rik, does this seem appropriate for longterm?
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
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2012-09-09 16:57 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2012-09-09 17:15 ` Rik van Riel
2012-09-09 18:03 ` Shentino
2012-09-10 13:36 ` Cong Wang
2012-09-10 17:07 ` Shentino
2012-09-10 17:40 ` Shentino
2012-09-09 18:27 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 20:34 ` Willy Tarreau
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