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mm: remove swap token code
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:03:30 +0000 (11:03 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:17:18 +0000 (15:17 +1000)
commit9cfdb586f019a877a02996d9025e25025ab706c3
treece0f34327f6d4807dbb02c09a0f1c7c21537ba5e
parent80524e88d4660b5e30551746c50f9a752b488032
mm: remove swap token code

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, as reported by Konstantin Khlebnikov.  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>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bpicco@meloft.net>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm_types.h
include/linux/swap.h
include/trace/events/vmscan.h
kernel/fork.c
mm/Makefile
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/memory.c
mm/rmap.c
mm/thrash.c [deleted file]
mm/vmscan.c