From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: 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: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:58:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oca7evbo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1011012030100.12298@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:33:10 -0700 (PDT), David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> And they can't use an init script to tune /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
> because...?
Packaging concerns, as I mentioned before,
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 08:52:30AM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote:
> Ubuntu ships different kernels for desktop and server usage. From a
> packaging standpoint it would be much nicer to have this set in the
> kernel configuration. If we were to throw the setting /etc/sysctl.conf
> the kernel would depend upon the package containing sysctl(8)
> (procps). We'd rather avoid this and keep the default kernel
> configuration in one place.
In short, being able to specify this default in .config is just far
simpler from a packaging standpoint than the alternatives.
- Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-02 12:58 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 [this message]
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
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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