Re: Consider for longterm kernels: mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0

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On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 13:15 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 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.

OK, I've queued this up for 3.2.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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