Re: Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation

[John Richard Moser]

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Nick Piggin wrote:
| Con Kolivas wrote:
|
|> Nick Piggin writes:
|> Umm I think we're agreeing, no? I'm trying to leave the swappiness
|> knob in for those who (think?) they know what they're doing. Somehow
|> it needs to be turned to "manual" again.
|>
|
| No. Fold your all "autoswappiness" stuff directly into the
| reclaim_mapped calculation that was previously keyed off swappiness.
| Don't have it modify vm_swappiness at all: work directly on
| reclaim_mapped.
|
| Then, you should be able to retain the user's vm_swappiness input
| into the system as well. If you can't figure out a good place to
| put this in, don't worry about it to start with.
|

Wasn't the point of this patch to allow the machine to tweak the
swappiness knob itself according to what it thinks is best, unless the
user tells it not to?
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