Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 May 2013 12:32:17 -0400 | From | KOSAKI Motohiro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/02] swapon: allow a more flexible swap discard policy |
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(5/26/13 12:31 AM), Rafael Aquini wrote: > Introduce the necessary changes to swapon(8) allowing a sysadmin to leverage > the new changes introduced to sys_swapon by "swap: discard while swapping > only if SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_PAGES", therefore allowing a more flexible set of > choices when selection the discard policy for mounted swap areas. > This patch introduces the following optional arguments to the already > existent swapon(8) "--discard" option, in order to allow a discard type to > be selected at swapon time: > * once : only single-time area discards are issued. (swapon) > * pages : discard freed pages before they are reused. > If no policy is selected both discard types are enabled. (default) > > Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
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