From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9QHIni4001562 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:18:49 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.5) with ESMTP id l9QHInaV125376 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:18:49 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l9QHImSo004920 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:18:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add mem_type in /syfs to show memblock migrate type From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: <20071026161406.GB19443@skynet.ie> References: <1193327756.9894.5.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <1193331162.4039.141.camel@localhost> <1193332042.9894.10.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <1193332528.4039.156.camel@localhost> <1193333766.9894.16.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20071025180514.GB20345@skynet.ie> <1193335935.24087.22.camel@localhost> <20071026095043.GA14347@skynet.ie> <1193413936.24087.91.camel@localhost> <20071026161406.GB19443@skynet.ie> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:18:46 -0700 Message-Id: <1193419126.24087.130.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Badari Pulavarty , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , melgor@ie.ibm.com, linux-mm List-ID: On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 17:14 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > I would think that if memory is being shrunk in the system, the monitoring > software would not particularly care. If you think that might be the case, > then rename mem_removable to mem_removable_score and have it print out 0 or > 1 for the moment based on the current criteria. Tell userspace developers > that the higher the score, the more suitable it is for removing. That will > allow the introduction of a proper scoring mechanism later if there is a > good reason for it without breaking backwards compatability. I completely agree. -- Dave -- 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