From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com (mail-pa0-f50.google.com [209.85.220.50]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224736B00BE for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 01:01:40 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id fb1so10054676pad.37 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:01:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from psmtp.com ([74.125.245.105]) by mx.google.com with SMTP id gn4si15925447pbc.171.2013.11.05.22.01.36 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:01:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-ea0-f172.google.com with SMTP id r16so4729504ead.31 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:01:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:01:32 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: cache largest vma Message-ID: <20131106060132.GB24044@gmail.com> References: <1383337039.2653.18.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> <20131103101234.GB5330@gmail.com> <1383538810.2373.22.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> <20131104070500.GE13030@gmail.com> <20131104142001.GE9299@localhost.localdomain> <20131104175245.GA19517@gmail.com> <20131104181012.GK9299@localhost.localdomain> <20131105082450.GA10127@gmail.com> <20131105142707.GC30283@krava.brq.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131105142707.GC30283@krava.brq.redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Jiri Olsa Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , Davidlohr Bueso , Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Michel Lespinasse , Mel Gorman , Rik van Riel , Guan Xuetao , aswin@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds , David Ahern , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo * Jiri Olsa wrote: > > But success primarily depends on how useful the tooling UI turns out > > to be: create a nice Slang or GTK UI for kprobes and triggers, and/or > > turn it into a really intuitive command line UI, and people will use > > it. > > > > I think annotated assembly/source output is a really nice match for > > triggers and kprobes, so I'd suggest the Slang TUI route ... > > yep, current toggling command line UI is not much user friendly > > but perhaps we should leave it there (because it seems it wont get much > better anyway) and focus more on Slang UI as the target one.. > > CCing Arnaldo ;-) Btw., I think we should do the TUI interface _before_ we can merge the kernel changes. Frankly, 'not very user friendly' means that it's not used (and tested) much - which begs the question: why merge the feature at all? Making a new kernel feature usable to as many people as possible must be a primary concern, not an afterthought. Thanks, Ingo -- 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