mm: document improved handling of swappiness==0
authorAaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:05:38 +0000 (14:05 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:22:39 +0000 (16:22 -0800)
commit8582cb96b0bfd6891766d8c30d759bf21aad3b4d
treee603a54867acf33e5424d71f34e891b8dbb4e1bf
parent0368dfd01ae3b7647ef9b2f0525fdefd5e0d28e1
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 <atomlin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>
Cc: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt