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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
To: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, hughd@google.com, shli@kernel.org,
	kzak@redhat.com, jmoyer@redhat.com, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com,
	riel@redhat.com, lwoodman@redhat.com, mgorman@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/02] swapon: allow a more flexible swap discard policy
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 12:32:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A23911.3060802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6346c223ca2acb30b35480b9d51638466aac5fe6.1369530033.git.aquini@redhat.com>

(5/26/13 12:31 AM), Rafael Aquini wrote:
> Introduce the necessary changes to swapon(8) allowing a sysadmin to leverage
> the new changes introduced to sys_swapon by "swap: discard while swapping
> only if SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_PAGES", therefore allowing a more flexible set of
> choices when selection the discard policy for mounted swap areas.
> This patch introduces the following optional arguments to the already
> existent swapon(8) "--discard" option, in order to allow a discard type to 
> be selected at swapon time:
>  * once    : only single-time area discards are issued. (swapon)
>  * pages   : discard freed pages before they are reused.
> If no policy is selected both discard types are enabled. (default)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>

Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>



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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-26 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-26  4:31 [PATCH 00/02] swap: allowing a more flexible DISCARD policy V2 Rafael Aquini
2013-05-26  4:31 ` [PATCH 01/02] swap: discard while swapping only if SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_PAGES Rafael Aquini
2013-05-26 11:44   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-05-26 13:52     ` Rafael Aquini
2013-05-26 14:55       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-05-26 15:30         ` Rafael Aquini
2013-05-26 16:02           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-06-28  2:14   ` Shaohua Li
2013-05-26  4:31 ` [PATCH 02/02] swapon: allow a more flexible swap discard policy Rafael Aquini
2013-05-26 16:32   ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2013-08-23 11:03   ` Karel Zak

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