From: Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.org>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:36:43 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F9BA3BB.6030502@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F9BAE6F.5070009@cyberone.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> Hi Con,
> If this indeed makes VM behaviour better, why not just merge the
> calculation
> with the swap_tendancy calculation and leave vm_swappiness there as a
> tunable?
Because the whole point of it is to remove the tunable and make it auto
tuning. We could do away with the vm_swappiness variable altogether too
(which I would actually prefer to do) but this leaves it intact to see
what the vm is doing.
Con
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-26 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-23 13:37 [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness 2.6.0-test8 Con Kolivas
2003-10-23 14:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-10-23 15:03 ` Con Kolivas
2003-10-25 6:58 ` [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup Con Kolivas
2003-10-26 11:22 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-26 10:36 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2003-10-26 11:42 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-28 11:04 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-28 12:40 ` Con Kolivas
2003-10-28 13:34 Boszormenyi Zoltan
2003-10-28 14:39 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-28 15:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-28 15:54 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-28 16:37 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-28 16:51 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-28 17:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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