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Date:	Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:41:47 +0100
From:	hannes@...xchg.org
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>From hannes@...xchg.org Fri Feb  6 02:28:54 2009
Message-Id: <20090206012854.817934336@...xchg.org>
User-Agent: quilt/0.47-1
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:26:07 +0100
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
 Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] swsusp: dont fiddle with swappiness
References: <20090206012605.378214179@...xchg.org>
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=swsusp-dont-fiddle-with-swappiness.patch

sc.swappiness is not used in the swsusp memory shrinking path, do not
set it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
---
 mm/vmscan.c |    5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2111,7 +2111,6 @@ unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned
 		.may_swap = 0,
 		.swap_cluster_max = nr_pages,
 		.may_writepage = 1,
-		.swappiness = vm_swappiness,
 		.isolate_pages = isolate_pages_global,
 	};
 
@@ -2145,10 +2144,8 @@ unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned
 		int prio;
 
 		/* Force reclaiming mapped pages in the passes #3 and #4 */
-		if (pass > 2) {
+		if (pass > 2)
 			sc.may_swap = 1;
-			sc.swappiness = 100;
-		}
 
 		for (prio = DEF_PRIORITY; prio >= 0; prio--) {
 			unsigned long nr_to_scan = nr_pages - ret;


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