From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx172.postini.com [74.125.245.172]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6E366B0071 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 23:55:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by qabg27 with SMTP id g27so594377qab.14 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FD177BD.1070004@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:55:41 -0400 From: KOSAKI Motohiro MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some vmevent fixes... References: <20120507121527.GA19526@lizard> <4FA82056.2070706@gmail.com> <20120601122118.GA6128@lizard> <4FCC7592.9030403@kernel.org> <20120604113811.GA4291@lizard> <4FCD14F1.1030105@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Pekka Enberg Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Anton Vorontsov , Minchan Kim , Leonid Moiseichuk , John Stultz , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, kernel-team@android.com (6/5/12 3:52 AM), Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:05 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro > wrote: >>> - On desktops, apps can drop their caches on demand if they want to >>> and can avoid swap activity? >> >> In this case, fallocate(VOLATILE) is work more better. > > For some cases, yes, but probably not for all. > > For example, if userspace doesn't know about "about to swap real soon" > condition, it can continue to grow its caches making > fallocate(VOLATILE) pretty much useless. Fair enough. But, Please consider your scenario don't need vmevent(2), cat /proc/meminfo works enough. Only dropping activity need a quick work and just in time notification. cache growing limitation don't need. -- 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