From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
"linux-mm\@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:40:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbfxbykr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101103143358.GA19777@redhat.com>
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:59 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> Not sure why I was cc'd on this, but at least for Fedora, we still take
> the 'one kernel to rule them all' approach for every spin (and will likely
> continue to do so to maximise coverage testing) so a config option for us
> for things like this is moot.
>
Just didn't want to miss anyone important. Sorry for the noise.
> Whenever I've tried to push changes to our defaults through to our
> default /etc/sysctl.conf, it's been met with resistance due to beliefs
> that a) the file is there for _users_ to override decisions
> the distro made at build time and b) if this is the right default,
> why isn't the kernel setting it?
>
This seems to be the consensus within the Ubuntu community as well. I
don't have any strong opinion either way but I will admit that setting
it in userspace does make the packaging issue messy.
- Ben
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From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:40:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbfxbykr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101103143358.GA19777@redhat.com>
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:59 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> Not sure why I was cc'd on this, but at least for Fedora, we still take
> the 'one kernel to rule them all' approach for every spin (and will likely
> continue to do so to maximise coverage testing) so a config option for us
> for things like this is moot.
>
Just didn't want to miss anyone important. Sorry for the noise.
> Whenever I've tried to push changes to our defaults through to our
> default /etc/sysctl.conf, it's been met with resistance due to beliefs
> that a) the file is there for _users_ to override decisions
> the distro made at build time and b) if this is the right default,
> why isn't the kernel setting it?
>
This seems to be the consensus within the Ubuntu community as well. I
don't have any strong opinion either way but I will admit that setting
it in userspace does make the packaging issue messy.
- Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-04 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-02 3:20 [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 3:20 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 3:33 ` David Rientjes
2010-11-02 3:33 ` David Rientjes
2010-11-02 12:58 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 12:58 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 14:01 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-02 14:01 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-03 14:33 ` Dave Jones
2010-11-03 14:33 ` Dave Jones
2010-11-04 2:40 ` Ben Gamari [this message]
2010-11-04 2:40 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-04 3:09 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-04 3:09 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 14:34 ` Hiroyuki Kamezawa
2010-11-02 14:34 ` Hiroyuki Kamezawa
2010-11-04 2:44 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-04 2:44 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 19:39 ` David Rientjes
2010-11-02 19:39 ` David Rientjes
2010-11-04 3:13 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-04 3:13 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 4:14 ` Jesper Juhl
2010-11-02 4:14 ` Jesper Juhl
2010-11-02 4:27 ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-02 4:27 ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-02 12:47 ` Hiroyuki Kamezawa
2010-11-02 12:47 ` Hiroyuki Kamezawa
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