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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Document improved handling of swappiness==0
On 01/24/2014 07:13 AM, Aaron Tomlin wrote:
> Prior to upstream commit fe35004f ("[mm] avoid swapping out
> with swappiness==0") setting swappiness to 0, reclaim code
> could still evict recently used user anonymous memory to swap
> even though there is a significant amount of RAM used for page
> cache.
>
> The behaviour of setting swappiness to 0 has since changed.
> When set, the reclaim code does not initiate swap until the
> amount of free pages and file-backed pages, is less than the
> high water mark in a zone.
>
> Let's update the documentation to reflect this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>
> ---
> Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
> index 9f5481b..38388ee 100644
> --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
> @@ -696,7 +696,9 @@ swappiness
>
> This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap
> memory pages. Higher values will increase agressiveness, lower values
> -decrease the amount of swap.
> +decrease the amount of swap. A value of 0 instructs the kernel not to
> +initiate swap until the amount of free and file-backed pages, is less

drop the comma ^

> +than the high water mark in a zone.
>
> The default value is 60.
>
>


--
~Randy


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