On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:39:52 -0700 (PDT), David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Ben Gamari wrote: > > Packaging concerns, as I mentioned before, > > That you snipped from the changelog? > Guilty as charged. Sorry about that, time has been in short supply recently. > You could say the same thing for any sysctl, it's not indicative of why > this particular change is needed in the kernel. > This is certainly true; a distribution could in principle want to tweak the default values of any of the sysctl knobs. If we wanted to tweak anything else in addition to swappiness that I wouldn't have even bothered to submit the patch since I'll be the first to admit that the precedent set by further growing the Kconfig phase space is not a positive one. That being said, swappiness is one of the more significant knobs in the vm and certainly one of the more likely to be tuned by a distribution. > Let's not have the "in short" answer, what's the "long" answer? See my recent response to Wu Fengguang. Cheers, - Ben -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>