Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation

[Mikhail Ramendik]

Nick Piggin wrote:

> Secondly, can you please not mess with the exported sysctl. If you
> think your "autoswappiness" calculation is better than the current
> swappiness one, just completely replace it. Bonus points if you can
> retain the swappiness knob in some capacity.

I as a user of -ck *strongly* disagree with this proposal. I want to be
able to try both manual and automatic setting, without recompiling the
kernel.

If you really must avoid another named exported sysctl, I suggest making
a "reserved" swappiness value, like 255, that would mean
"auto-regulate".

Yours, Mikhail Ramendik



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