From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262927AbTJZKlU (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:41:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262930AbTJZKlT (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:41:19 -0500 Received: from mail-09.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.41]:39119 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262927AbTJZKlS (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:41:18 -0500 Message-ID: <3F9BB322.8030502@cyberone.com.au> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:42:26 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: Con Kolivas , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup References: <200310232337.50538.kernel@kolivas.org> <8720000.1066920153@[10.10.2.4]> <200310240103.19336.kernel@kolivas.org> <200310251658.23070.kernel@kolivas.org> <3F9BAE6F.5070009@cyberone.com.au> <3F9BA3BB.6030502@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <3F9BA3BB.6030502@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > >> >> Hi Con, >> If this indeed makes VM behaviour better, why not just merge the >> calculation >> with the swap_tendancy calculation and leave vm_swappiness there as a >> tunable? > > > Because the whole point of it is to remove the tunable and make it > auto tuning. We could do away with the vm_swappiness variable > altogether too (which I would actually prefer to do) but this leaves > it intact to see what the vm is doing. Right. This just had me a bit confused. No worries.