From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "KOSAKI Motohiro" Subject: Re: [sample] mem_notify v6: usage example Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:46:06 +0900 Message-ID: <2f11576a0802090846t7655e988pb1b712696cad1098@mail.gmail.com> References: <2f11576a0802090755n123c9b7dh26e0af6a2fef28af@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Marcelo Tosatti" , "Daniel Spang" , "Rik van Riel" , "Andrew Morton" , "Alan Cox" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "Pavel Machek" , "Al Boldi" , "Zan Lynx" To: "Jon Masters" Return-path: Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.239]:62716 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753760AbYBIQqM (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 11:46:12 -0500 Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id e11so6835847qbe.15 for ; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:46:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Jon > This really needs to be triggered via a generic kernel event in the > final version - I picture glibc having a reservation API and having > generic support for freeing such reservations. to be honest, I doubt idea of generic reservation framework. end up, we hope drop the application cache, not also dataless memory. but, automatically drop mechanism only able to drop dataless memory. and, many application have own memory management subsystem. I afraid to nobody use too complex framework. What do you think it? I hope see your API. please post it. Thanks!