From 8582cb96b0bfd6891766d8c30d759bf21aad3b4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Tomlin Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:05:38 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove comma, per Randy] Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Bryn M. Reeves Cc: Satoru Moriya Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed