From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx148.postini.com [74.125.245.148]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEE9F6B005D for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 13:16:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <504CCECF.9020104@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:15:59 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Consider for longterm kernels: mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0 References: <5038E7AA.5030107@gmail.com> <1347209830.7709.39.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1347209830.7709.39.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ben Hutchings Cc: Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Zdenek Kaspar , linux-mm@kvack.org On 09/09/2012 12:57 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 16:56 +0200, Zdenek Kaspar wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> 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. -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org