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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make swap accounting default behavior configurable
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:12:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116171225.274019cf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101117092339.1b7c2d6d.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:23:39 +0900 Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:

> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > > index ed45e98..14eafa5 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > > +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > > @@ -2385,6 +2385,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
> > >  			improve throughput, but will also increase the
> > >  			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
> > >  
> > > +	swapaccount	[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
> > > +			controller. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
> > 
> > So we have swapaccount and noswapaccount.  Ho hum, "swapaccount=[1|0]"
> > would have been better.
> > 
> I suggested to keep "noswapaccount" for compatibility.
> If you and other guys don't like having two parameters, I don't stick to
> the old parameter.
> 

Yes, we're stuck with the old one now.

But we should note that "foo=[0|1]" is superior to "foo" and "nofoo". 
Even if we didn't initially intend to add "nofoo".


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-16 10:17 [PATCH] Make swap accounting default behavior configurable Michal Hocko
2010-11-16 20:46 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-16 21:21   ` [stable] " Greg KH
2010-11-18  8:21     ` Michal Hocko
2010-11-18 16:36       ` Greg KH
2010-11-17  0:23   ` Daisuke Nishimura
2010-11-17  0:57     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-11-17  1:12     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-11-17  3:28       ` Daisuke Nishimura
2010-11-18  8:23         ` Michal Hocko
2010-11-18  8:46           ` Daisuke Nishimura
2010-11-18  8:53             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-11-18  9:56               ` [PATCH] Make swap accounting default behavior configurable v4 Michal Hocko
2010-11-18 10:14                 ` Daisuke Nishimura
2010-11-18 10:23                   ` Michal Hocko
2010-11-18 17:52                     ` Andrew Morton

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