From fe35004fbf9eaf67482b074a2e032abb9c89b1dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Satoru Moriya Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 15:06:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0 Sometimes we'd like to avoid swapping out anonymous memory. In particular, avoid swapping out pages of important process or process groups while there is a reasonable amount of pagecache on RAM so that we can satisfy our customers' requirements. OTOH, we can control how aggressive the kernel will swap memory pages with /proc/sys/vm/swappiness for global and /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.swappiness for each memcg. But with current reclaim implementation, the kernel may swap out even if we set swappiness=0 and there is pagecache in RAM. This patch changes the behavior with swappiness==0. If we set swappiness==0, the kernel does not swap out completely (for global reclaim until the amount of free pages and filebacked pages in a zone has been reduced to something very very small (nr_free + nr_filebacked < high watermark)). Signed-off-by: Satoru Moriya Acked-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Jerome Marchand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed