Re: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup

[Nick Piggin]

Con Kolivas wrote:

> 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.


Right. This just had me a bit confused. No worries.


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