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author | Aaron Tomlin <[email protected]> | 2014-01-29 14:05:38 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2014-01-29 16:22:39 -0800 |
commit | 8582cb96b0bfd6891766d8c30d759bf21aad3b4d (patch) | |
tree | e603a54867acf33e5424d71f34e891b8dbb4e1bf /tools/perf/scripts/python/sctop.py | |
parent | 0368dfd01ae3b7647ef9b2f0525fdefd5e0d28e1 (diff) |
mm: document improved handling of swappiness==0
Prior to commit fe35004fbf9e ("mm: avoid swapping out with
swappiness==0") setting swappiness to 0, reclaim code could still evict
recently used user anonymous memory to swap even though there is a
significant amount of RAM used for page cache.
The behaviour of setting swappiness to 0 has since changed. When set,
the reclaim code does not initiate swap until the amount of free pages
and file-backed pages, is less than the high water mark in a zone.
Let's update the documentation to reflect this.
[[email protected]: remove comma, per Randy]
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Bryn M. Reeves <[email protected]>
Cc: Satoru Moriya <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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