Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness

[Ben Gamari]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 23:34:27 +0900, Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hmm, then, can't we add a sysctl template config/script for generic
> sysctl values ?
>
That is one idea. Unfortunately, then we have something of a dependency
on out of tree userspace utilities.

> Adding this kind of CONFIG one by one seems not very helpful...
> 
This was definitely a concern of mine as well. In principle, a
distribution might want to tune any of the knobs in /proc/sys, so I
agree that adding them to Kconfig is a bit of a poor path to go down.
That being said, swappiness is an especially important tunable.

- Ben
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