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From: Ivan Teterevkov <ivan.teterevkov@nutanix.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: "corbet@lwn.net" <corbet@lwn.net>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: add vm_swappiness configuration knobs
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:14:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BL0PR02MB560169A483F201F1855C41A3E9F90@BL0PR02MB5601.namprd02.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ea2e014-17ea-6d1e-a6cd-775fb6550cd2@suse.cz>

On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> 
> Setting the vm_swappiness specific case aside, I wonder if if would be
> useful to be able to emulate any sysctl with a kernel parameter,
> i.e. boot the kernel with sysctl.vm.swappiness=X
> There are already some options that provide kernel parameter as well
> as sysctl, why not just support all.
>
It looks like a missing feature to me but I've always assumed that
there is some unobvious philosophical reasoning behind not having
such interfaces in the kernel. The feature-wise I'd be one of the
first users of the sysctl command-line parameters.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-16 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-11 17:45 Ivan Teterevkov
2020-03-11 19:31 ` David Rientjes
2020-03-12 12:48   ` Ivan Teterevkov
2020-03-12 13:36     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-12 14:03       ` Chris Down
2020-03-13 10:49         ` Ivan Teterevkov
2020-03-13 21:50           ` David Rientjes
2020-03-16 16:03             ` Ivan Teterevkov
2020-03-12  9:25 ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-12 12:54   ` Ivan Teterevkov
2020-03-12 13:26     ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-16 14:53       ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-16 16:14         ` Ivan Teterevkov [this message]
2020-03-17  8:29         ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-17 14:51           ` Vlastimil Babka

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