On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Michal Hocko wrote: > And a follow up for memcg.swappiness documentation which is more > specific about spwappiness==0 meaning. > --- > From 1bc3a94fea728107ed108edd42df464b908cd067 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:43:56 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] doc: describe memcg swappiness more precisely > > since fe35004f (mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0) memcg reclaim > stopped swapping out anon pages completely when 0 value is used. > Although this is somehow expected it hasn't been done for a really long > time this way and so it is probably better to be explicit about the > effect. Moreover global reclaim swapps out even when swappiness is 0 > to prevent from OOM killer. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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>