From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx148.postini.com [74.125.245.148]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7AF86B004F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:10:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] /dev/low_mem_notify From: Pekka Enberg In-Reply-To: <20120124153835.GA10990@amt.cnet> References: <84FF21A720B0874AA94B46D76DB98269045596EA@008-AM1MPN1-003.mgdnok.nokia.com> <84FF21A720B0874AA94B46D76DB982690455978C@008-AM1MPN1-003.mgdnok.nokia.com> <4F175706.8000808@redhat.com> <4F17DCED.4020908@redhat.com> <4F17E058.8020008@redhat.com> <84FF21A720B0874AA94B46D76DB9826904559D46@008-AM1MPN1-003.mgdnok.nokia.com> <20120124153835.GA10990@amt.cnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:10:40 +0200 Message-ID: <1327421440.13624.30.camel@jaguar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com, rhod@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com, minchan@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, rientjes@google.com, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:38 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Having userspace specify the "sample period" for low memory notification > makes no sense. The frequency of notifications is a function of the > memory pressure. Sure, it makes sense to autotune sample period. I don't see the problem with letting userspace decide it for themselves if they want to. Pekka -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org