From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] man-pages: Add man page for vmpressure_fd(2) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:52:11 -0800 Message-ID: <20121119215211.6370ac3b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20121107105348.GA25549@lizard> <20121107110152.GC30462@lizard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20121107110152.GC30462@lizard> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Anton Vorontsov Cc: Mel Gorman , Pekka Enberg , Leonid Moiseichuk , KOSAKI Motohiro , Minchan Kim , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , John Stultz , linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linaro-kernel-cunTk1MwBs8s++Sfvej+rw@public.gmane.org, patches-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, kernel-team-z5hGa2qSFaRBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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 this patchset exists! How about we step away from implementation details for a while and discuss observed problems, use-cases, requirements and such? What are we actually trying to achieve here? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx132.postini.com [74.125.245.132]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 395056B0074 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:52:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:52:11 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] man-pages: Add man page for vmpressure_fd(2) Message-Id: <20121119215211.6370ac3b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20121107110152.GC30462@lizard> References: <20121107105348.GA25549@lizard> <20121107110152.GC30462@lizard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Anton Vorontsov Cc: Mel Gorman , Pekka Enberg , Leonid Moiseichuk , KOSAKI Motohiro , Minchan Kim , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , John Stultz , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, kernel-team@android.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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 this patchset exists! How about we step away from implementation details for a while and discuss observed problems, use-cases, requirements and such? What are we actually trying to achieve here? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751440Ab2KTFwT (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:52:19 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55227 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750823Ab2KTFwS (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:52:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:52:11 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Anton Vorontsov Cc: Mel Gorman , Pekka Enberg , Leonid Moiseichuk , KOSAKI Motohiro , Minchan Kim , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , John Stultz , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, kernel-team@android.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] man-pages: Add man page for vmpressure_fd(2) Message-Id: <20121119215211.6370ac3b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20121107110152.GC30462@lizard> References: <20121107105348.GA25549@lizard> <20121107110152.GC30462@lizard> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 this patchset exists! How about we step away from implementation details for a while and discuss observed problems, use-cases, requirements and such? What are we actually trying to achieve here?