From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:44:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eib1byf8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimDPdDHAg0Odp0WchOLKh3OUSOWX7_0ps8eizFk@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 23:34:27 +0900, Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, then, can't we add a sysctl template config/script for generic
> sysctl values ?
>
That is one idea. Unfortunately, then we have something of a dependency
on out of tree userspace utilities.
> Adding this kind of CONFIG one by one seems not very helpful...
>
This was definitely a concern of mine as well. In principle, a
distribution might want to tune any of the knobs in /proc/sys, so I
agree that adding them to Kconfig is a bit of a poor path to go down.
That being said, swappiness is an especially important tunable.
- Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-04 2:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-02 3:20 Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 3:33 ` David Rientjes
2010-11-02 12:58 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 14:01 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-03 14:33 ` Dave Jones
2010-11-04 2:40 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-04 3:09 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 14:34 ` Hiroyuki Kamezawa
2010-11-04 2:44 ` Ben Gamari [this message]
2010-11-02 19:39 ` David Rientjes
2010-11-04 3:13 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 4:14 ` Jesper Juhl
2010-11-02 4:27 ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-02 12:47 ` Hiroyuki Kamezawa
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