On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 01:15:59PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > >>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. Just for the record, in 3.0 and below we don't have vmscan_swappiness(), so if the match makes sense there, that function will need to be backported, in which mem_cgroup_swappiness() will have to be replaced by get_swappiness(). Regards, Willy -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>