From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx131.postini.com [74.125.245.131]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAC2B6B0062 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 12:57:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1347209830.7709.39.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: Consider for longterm kernels: mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:57:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: <5038E7AA.5030107@gmail.com> References: <5038E7AA.5030107@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-wYhpxHhSKRlkiylv7G9Y" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Zdenek Kaspar , linux-mm@kvack.org --=-wYhpxHhSKRlkiylv7G9Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 16:56 +0200, Zdenek Kaspar wrote: > Hi Greg, >=20 > http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=3Dcommit= ;h=3Dfe35004fbf9eaf67482b074a2e032abb9c89b1dd >=20 > 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. >=20 > More details: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/2/320 >=20 > Its included in 3.5, so could this be considered for -longterm kernels ? Andrew, Rik, does this seem appropriate for longterm? Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. --=-wYhpxHhSKRlkiylv7G9Y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAUEzKZue/yOyVhhEJAQoB2hAAjI0JBOCuzxGuFFbAgBkzT6EniYl0wyUP prVyB89lGXnaBP5Fxrd1oMkKZ0OG5vtWYvtRTOB1v1qTlfj3QpT9btGg/mQ3YrXs ECbo/aDj1XZS9o8ycxKeIXYbfVNU4qq0LrA4v/xxwAG2VZRySHNLVzwD20Kx9gTt Nmdv2tUtKjrDIQAH0RfrVoweeGYQHahztWUOyEaLjfE8HMEIsaQh1Ps/SNpfT7GO tenpdyGY2kagvxERtTte7GA05imhetRJHM+086v9A5kN8/kkwBnW7zz3WNm8vMN4 VxES+vH9WZNZTsIjm1EetgThbn4PF0AYWJLiSPazSqSairzB2Fiqkoa1MRbfCShw klRSvSJVAwPc1NaC2k417u0CR8upJYOV/lfi2f4McPtn6tJH6KUwxamJ1pKt6bAE UDdqQdInECjZ3ECdZgVJbdzuNIC/vRsOlxVwq/ZtsKrQXYPNStO832fVx2sNim10 nDpiZdxokYBOTcY9ycUBD9W2/AYYlyOUWa7nDnDNQUu+NoWRweOQqGzVy15jwWeU c721n5vWQgbFkETewi5WLSVcQfcxhUZkFRcbKtgVR5c5ssHFVTGkhW1uAcS+xptE lm7rtedmriDSgLDi7eWWyw3F4nuX+/DrMEYlB4H8JoRhPPZPXyG9EXPwvWSxtlTq TdbBqCpJF5w= =MsKa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-wYhpxHhSKRlkiylv7G9Y-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org