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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: describe memcg swappiness more precisely memory.swappiness==0
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:54:37 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1210151754220.31712@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121015220725.GB11682@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Michal Hocko wrote:

> And a follow up for memcg.swappiness documentation which is more
> specific about spwappiness==0 meaning.
> ---
> From 1bc3a94fea728107ed108edd42df464b908cd067 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:43:56 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: describe memcg swappiness more precisely
> 
> since fe35004f (mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0) memcg reclaim
> stopped swapping out anon pages completely when 0 value is used.
> Although this is somehow expected it hasn't been done for a really long
> time this way and so it is probably better to be explicit about the
> effect. Moreover global reclaim swapps out even when swappiness is 0
> to prevent from OOM killer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-16  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-10 14:11 [RFC PATCH] memcg: oom: fix totalpages calculation for swappiness==0 Michal Hocko
2012-10-10 20:50 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-11  8:50   ` Michal Hocko
2012-10-11  8:57     ` [PATCH] memcg: oom: fix totalpages calculation for memory.swappiness==0 Michal Hocko
2012-10-11  9:13       ` Michal Hocko
2012-10-11 12:20       ` Johannes Weiner
2012-10-12 13:01         ` Michal Hocko
2012-10-11 22:36       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-10-12 13:01         ` Michal Hocko
2012-10-15 22:04       ` [PATCH v2] " Michal Hocko
2012-10-15 22:07         ` [PATCH] doc: describe memcg swappiness more precisely memory.swappiness==0 Michal Hocko
2012-10-16  0:51           ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-10-16  0:54           ` David Rientjes [this message]
2012-11-07 22:10         ` [PATCH v2] memcg: oom: fix totalpages calculation for memory.swappiness==0 Andrew Morton
2012-11-07 22:46           ` Michal Hocko
2012-11-07 22:53             ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-08  8:35               ` Michal Hocko
2012-10-15  9:11 ` [RFC PATCH] memcg: oom: fix totalpages calculation for swappiness==0 Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-10-15  9:49   ` Michal Hocko
2012-10-15 14:25     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-10-15 14:47       ` Michal Hocko
2012-10-15 22:33         ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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