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was Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: always allow writeback during memcg reclaim To: Johannes Weiner , Christoph Hellwig Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org References: <20251213083639.364539-1-kartikey406@gmail.com> <20251215041200.GB905277@cmpxchg.org> <20251215200838.GC905277@cmpxchg.org> <20251216185201.GH905277@cmpxchg.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Jens Axboe In-Reply-To: <20251216185201.GH905277@cmpxchg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/16/25 11:52 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 11:41:07PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 03:08:38PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: >>> Debated whether to add some sort of deprecation sysctl handler, but at >>> least systemd-sysctl just prints a warning and still applies other >>> settings from the same config file. >> >> In general dropping sysctl will break things. So I think we'll need >> a stub, at which point it might as well warn for a while. > > Fair enough, I added that. > > Jens, that change seemed small enough that I carried your Ack, but > please let me know if you feel otherwise ;) That's fine, fwiw I fully agree with that change. -- Jens Axboe