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SubjectRe: [PATCH] doc: describe memcg swappiness more precisely memory.swappiness==0
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@suse.cz>
> 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@suse.cz>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>


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