From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Zdenek Kaspar <zkaspar82@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Consider for longterm kernels: mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 22:34:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120909203411.GC13847@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <504CCECF.9020104@redhat.com>
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 01:15:59PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >>http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=fe35004fbf9eaf67482b074a2e032abb9c89b1dd
> >>
> >>In short: this patch seems beneficial for users trying to avoid memory
> >>swapping at all costs but they want to keep swap for emergency reasons.
> >>
> >>More details: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/2/320
> >>
> >>Its included in 3.5, so could this be considered for -longterm kernels ?
> >
> >Andrew, Rik, does this seem appropriate for longterm?
>
> Yes, absolutely. Default behaviour is not changed at all, and
> the patch makes swappiness=0 do what people seem to expect it
> to do.
Just for the record, in 3.0 and below we don't have vmscan_swappiness(),
so if the match makes sense there, that function will need to be backported,
in which mem_cgroup_swappiness() will have to be replaced by get_swappiness().
Regards,
Willy
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2012-09-09 16:57 ` Consider for longterm kernels: mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0 Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 17:15 ` Rik van Riel
2012-09-09 18:03 ` Shentino
2012-09-10 13:36 ` Cong Wang
2012-09-10 17:07 ` Shentino
2012-09-10 17:40 ` Shentino
2012-09-09 18:27 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 20:34 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
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