Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752417Ab0KBM6d (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:58:33 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:35340 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751081Ab0KBM61 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:58:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date :message-id:mime-version:content-type; b=IHTr4X9CB41bMaGaI0pRqI4TTDPS0sf2fPzy90wIST3k6LOgwrkLUEcFkjdwQw/Ydy YY8vEgyZHMdORbABRF8DQN9FDuOoi6bNYN+s+85YAXOiTlgTrg6ZLITEvKa6kG7uadKj M1j5ihorWuHU4VJxWJxtfbWXU/rxGbn9VZ/Mg= From: Ben Gamari To: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesper Juhl , Wu Fengguang Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness In-Reply-To: References: <1288668052-32036-1-git-send-email-bgamari.foss@gmail.com> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.3.1-158-g04cd99c (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:58:19 -0400 Message-ID: <87oca7evbo.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1024 Lines: 24 On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:33:10 -0700 (PDT), David Rientjes wrote: > And they can't use an init script to tune /proc/sys/vm/swappiness > because...? Packaging concerns, as I mentioned before, On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 08:52:30AM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote: > Ubuntu ships different kernels for desktop and server usage. From a > packaging standpoint it would be much nicer to have this set in the > kernel configuration. If we were to throw the setting /etc/sysctl.conf > the kernel would depend upon the package containing sysctl(8) > (procps). We'd rather avoid this and keep the default kernel > configuration in one place. In short, being able to specify this default in .config is just far simpler from a packaging standpoint than the alternatives. - Ben -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/