Hi Jon
> I looked at this a year or two back, then ran out of time. But the thing
> I wanted to do was have libc's memory allocation routines extended to
> handle these through reservations - the kernel should send a userspace
> notification and then there should be some kind of concept of
Hi Jon
I looked at this a year or two back, then ran out of time. But the thing
I wanted to do was have libc's memory allocation routines extended to
handle these through reservations - the kernel should send a userspace
notification and then there should be some kind of concept of returning
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 16:55 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > > And from a performance point of view letting applications voluntarily
> > > > free some memory is better even than starting to swap.
> > >
> > > Absolutely.
> >
> > the mem_notify patch can realize "just before
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 16:55 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
And from a performance point of view letting applications voluntarily
free some memory is better even than starting to swap.
Absolutely.
the mem_notify patch can realize just before starting swapping
Hi Al
> > the mem_notify patch can realize "just before starting swapping"
> > notification :)
> >
> > to be honest, I don't know fs guys requirement.
> > if lacking feature of fs guys needed, I implement it with presure if
> > you tell me it.
>
> These notifications are really useful, but it may
KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > And from a performance point of view letting applications voluntarily
> > > free some memory is better even than starting to swap.
> >
> > Absolutely.
>
> the mem_notify patch can realize "just before starting swapping"
> notification :)
>
> to be honest, I don't know
Hi Al
the mem_notify patch can realize just before starting swapping
notification :)
to be honest, I don't know fs guys requirement.
if lacking feature of fs guys needed, I implement it with presure if
you tell me it.
These notifications are really useful, but it may be much wiser
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