Re: Conveying memory pressure to userspace?

2007-05-11 Thread Bas Westerbaan
mount of cache they are using (proc entry, new madvise flag?) and let them register a priority. Then the kernel will keep track of a factor of fairness (<1: not greedy enough; 1> too greedy.)[1]. What about adding a callback when this value deviates a certain amount (<0.8, >1.2)? --

Conveying memory pressure to userspace?

2007-05-10 Thread Bas Westerbaan
s on this. Please CC me, I'm not in the list. Bas -- Bas Westerbaan GPG 99BA289B | SINP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.w-nz.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Bas Westerbaan
time to decide whether to remove the option or not instead of now. -- Bas Westerbaan http://blog.w-nz.com/ GPG Public Keys: http://w-nz.com/keys/bas.westerbaan.asc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Bas Westerbaan
ren't used on all configurations yet. Other situations may arise where 8K stacks may be preferred. It is too early to kill 8K stacks imho. -- Bas Westerbaan http://blog.w-nz.com/ GPG Public Keys: http://w-nz.com/keys/bas.westerbaan.asc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub