Re: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup

[Con Kolivas]

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hi Con,
> If this indeed makes VM behaviour better, why not just merge the 
> calculation
> with the swap_tendancy calculation and leave vm_swappiness there as a 
> tunable?

Because the whole point of it is to remove the tunable and make it auto 
tuning. We could do away with the vm_swappiness variable altogether too 
(which I would actually prefer to do) but this leaves it intact to see 
what the vm is doing.

Con

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