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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm] remove swap token code
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 11:32:01AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> The swap token code no longer fits in with the current VM model.
> It does not play well with cgroups or the better NUMA placement
> code in development, since we have only one swap token globally.
>
> It also has the potential to mess with scalability of the system,
> by increasing the number of non-reclaimable pages on the active
> and inactive anon LRU lists.
>
> Last but not least, the swap token code has been broken for a
> year without complaints. This suggests we no longer have much
> use for it.
>
> The days of sub-1G memory systems with heavy use of swap are
> over. If we ever need thrashing reducing code in the future,
> we will have to implement something that does scale.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>


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