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

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On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 at 18:03 GMT, Shentino <shentino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Just curious, but what theoretically would happen if someone were to
>> want to set swappiness to 200 or something?
>>
>> Should it be sorta like vfs_cache_pressure?
>>
>
>
> How could it be set to 200? As 0~100 is valid:
>
>         {
>                         .procname       = "swappiness",
>                         .data           = &vm_swappiness,
>                         .maxlen         = sizeof(vm_swappiness),
>                         .mode           = 0644,
>                         .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_minmax,
>                         .extra1         = &zero,
>                         .extra2         = &one_hundred,
>         },

My comment/question was more abstract and focusing on the comparison
to vfs_cache_pressure.

:P
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