linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness

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Date:	Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:40:52 -0400
From:	Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@...il.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	"linux-mm\@kvack.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:59 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
> Not sure why I was cc'd on this, but at least for Fedora, we still take
> the 'one kernel to rule them all' approach for every spin (and will likely
> continue to do so to maximise coverage testing) so a config option for us
> for things like this is moot.
> 
Just didn't want to miss anyone important. Sorry for the noise.

> Whenever I've tried to push changes to our defaults through to our
> default /etc/sysctl.conf, it's been met with resistance due to beliefs
> that a) the file is there for _users_ to override decisions
> the distro made at build time and b) if this is the right default,
> why isn't the kernel setting it?
>
This seems to be the consensus within the Ubuntu community as well. I
don't have any strong opinion either way but I will admit that setting
it in userspace does make the packaging issue messy.

- Ben
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