mm: remove swap token code
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tue, 29 May 2012 22:06:18 +0000 (15:06 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 May 2012 23:22:19 +0000 (16:22 -0700)
commite709ffd6169ccd259eb5874e853303e91e94e829
tree796b56c2507b8581492da73e354d651c9dd7076b
parentedad9d2c337d43278a9d5aeb0ed531c2e838f8a6
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@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