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From: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org
Subject: Re: Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:06:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40ED7F13.3050008@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40ED01FF.6010206@yahoo.com.au>

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Nick Piggin wrote:
| Con Kolivas wrote:
|
|> Nick Piggin writes:
|> Umm I think we're agreeing, no? I'm trying to leave the swappiness
|> knob in for those who (think?) they know what they're doing. Somehow
|> it needs to be turned to "manual" again.
|>
|
| No. Fold your all "autoswappiness" stuff directly into the
| reclaim_mapped calculation that was previously keyed off swappiness.
| Don't have it modify vm_swappiness at all: work directly on
| reclaim_mapped.
|
| Then, you should be able to retain the user's vm_swappiness input
| into the system as well. If you can't figure out a good place to
| put this in, don't worry about it to start with.
|

Wasn't the point of this patch to allow the machine to tweak the
swappiness knob itself according to what it thinks is best, unless the
user tells it not to?
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-08 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-07 15:16 2.6.7-ck5 Con Kolivas
2004-07-07 15:39 ` 2.6.7-ck5 John Richard Moser
2004-07-07 15:47   ` 2.6.7-ck5 Con Kolivas
2004-07-07 15:53     ` 2.6.7-ck5 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-07-07 16:11       ` 2.6.7-ck5 P
2004-07-07 17:10         ` 2.6.7-ck5 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-07-07 16:17       ` 2.6.7-ck5 Redeeman
2004-07-08  4:38     ` 2.6.7-ck5 Andrew Morton
2004-07-08  6:40       ` [PATCH] Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation Con Kolivas
2004-07-08  6:45         ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08  7:06         ` [PATCH] " Nick Piggin
2004-07-08  7:12           ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08  7:31             ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08  8:03               ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08  8:12                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 17:06                   ` John Richard Moser [this message]
2004-07-08 17:14                   ` [ck] " Mikhail Ramendik
2004-07-08 17:10           ` [ck] Re: [PATCH] " Mikhail Ramendik
2004-07-09  1:03             ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08  7:10         ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-08  7:58           ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08  8:08             ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-08  8:27               ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08 10:54                 ` FabF
2004-07-09  1:05                   ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-09  9:48                     ` FabF
2004-07-09 10:43                       ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-09 11:14                         ` FabF
2004-07-09 11:24                           ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-10  9:44                             ` FabF
     [not found]                               ` <40EFC076.9050504@yahoo.com.au>
2004-07-10 10:57                                 ` rss recovery FabF
2004-07-10 12:03                                   ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-13 13:12                                     ` FabF
2004-07-08 16:26                 ` Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation Timothy Miller
2004-07-08 17:12                   ` John Richard Moser
2004-07-08 18:37                     ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-08 21:40                       ` John Richard Moser
2004-07-09  7:44                     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-07-08 16:24               ` [PATCH] Autotune swappiness Con Kolivas
2004-07-08 16:44                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-09  0:39                   ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-09  1:19                     ` [ck] " Kerin Millar
2004-07-09 14:23                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-09 14:26                       ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08 15:57       ` [ck] Re: 2.6.7-ck5 GSehp
2004-07-07 16:45 ` 2.6.7-ck5 John Richard Moser
2004-07-07 17:10   ` 2.6.7-ck5 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-07-07 22:26 ` 2.6.7-ck5 Wes Janzen
2004-07-07 22:53   ` 2.6.7-ck5 Con Kolivas
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2000-01-01 17:31 Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation deepfire

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