Re: [PATCH] Make swap accounting default behavior configurable v4

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:23:49 +0100 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I'm sorry again and again, but I think removing "noswapaccount" completely
> > would be better, as Andrew said first:
> 
> I read the above Andrew's statement that we really should stick with the
> old parameter.

yup.  We shouldn't remove the existing parameter, which people might be
using already.

> > > So we have swapaccount and noswapaccount.  Ho hum, "swapaccount=[1|0]"
> > > would have been better.

What I meant was that it was a mistake to add the "noswapaccount" in
the first place.  We should have made it "swapaccount=0", because that
would leave open the later option of reversing the default, and
enabling "swapaccount=1".

It also give us the option of adding "swapaccount=2"!  Perhaps to
enable alternative swap accounting behaviour.
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