On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The proposed API bugs me a bit. It seems simplistic. I need to have a
> quality think about this. Maybe the result of that think will be to
> suggest an interface which can be extended in a back-compatible fashion
> later on, if/when the simplistic nat
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:01:50 +
Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:12:28AM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> >
> > > We try to make userland freeing resources when the system becomes low on
> > > memory. Once we're short on memory, some
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:12:28AM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>
> > We try to make userland freeing resources when the system becomes low on
> > memory. Once we're short on memory, sometimes it's better to discard
> > (free) data, rather than let the
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> We try to make userland freeing resources when the system becomes low on
> memory. Once we're short on memory, sometimes it's better to discard
> (free) data, rather than let the kernel to drain file caches or even start
> swapping.
>
To add another
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:52:11PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 03:01:52 -0800 Anton Vorontsov
> wrote:
> >Upon these notifications, userland programs can cooperate with
> >the kernel, achieving better system's memory management.
>
> Well I read through the
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 03:01:52 -0800 Anton Vorontsov
wrote:
>Upon these notifications, userland programs can cooperate with
>the kernel, achieving better system's memory management.
Well I read through the whole thread and afaict the above is the only
attempt to describe why thi
On 11/07/2012 06:01 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
Configuration
vmpressure_fd(2) accepts vmpressure_config structure to configure
the notifications:
struct vmpressure_config {
__u32 size;
__u32 threshold;
};
size is a part of A
VMPRESSURE_FD(2)Linux Programmer's Manual VMPRESSURE_FD(2)
NAME
vmpressure_fd - Linux virtual memory pressure notifications
SYNOPSIS
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
int vmpressure_fd(struc
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