From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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 19:27:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347215223.7709.59.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <504CCECF.9020104@redhat.com>
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On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 13:15 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 09/09/2012 12:57 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Yes, absolutely. Default behaviour is not changed at all, and
> the patch makes swappiness=0 do what people seem to expect it
> to do.
OK, I've queued this up for 3.2.
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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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-09-09 16:57 ` Ben Hutchings
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 [this message]
2012-09-09 20:34 ` Willy Tarreau
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