From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55DD36B00A9 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:40:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by qwi2 with SMTP id 2so820689qwi.14 for ; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:40:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Gamari Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness In-Reply-To: <20101103143358.GA19777@redhat.com> References: <1288668052-32036-1-git-send-email-bgamari.foss@gmail.com> <87oca7evbo.fsf@gmail.com> <20101102140119.GA8294@localhost> <20101103143358.GA19777@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:40:52 -0400 Message-ID: <87hbfxbykr.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Dave Jones , Wu Fengguang Cc: David Rientjes , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Jesper Juhl List-ID: On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:59 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > Not sure why I was cc'd on this, but at least for Fedora, we still take > the 'one kernel to rule them all' approach for every spin (and will likely > continue to do so to maximise coverage testing) so a config option for us > for things like this is moot. > Just didn't want to miss anyone important. Sorry for the noise. > Whenever I've tried to push changes to our defaults through to our > default /etc/sysctl.conf, it's been met with resistance due to beliefs > that a) the file is there for _users_ to override decisions > the distro made at build time and b) if this is the right default, > why isn't the kernel setting it? > This seems to be the consensus within the Ubuntu community as well. I don't have any strong opinion either way but I will admit that setting it in userspace does make the packaging issue messy. - Ben -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org