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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>,
	Robert Love <rlove@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fadvise: Add _VOLATILE,_ISVOLATILE, and _NONVOLATILE flags
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:20:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1335295211.28150.221.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335289787-11089-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>

On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:49 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> +/*
> + * Purges volatile ranges when under memory pressure
> + */
> +static int volatile_shrink(struct shrinker *ignored, struct shrink_control *sc)
> +{ 

Hmm, I would have expected regular page reclaim to know about this
instead of using a shrinker interface. Is this done specifically to
avoid growing small holes in all ranges and instead dump entire ranges
thereby keeping other ranges usable?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-24 17:49 [PATCH 0/3] Volatile Ranges John Stultz
2012-04-24 17:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] Range tree implementation John Stultz
2012-04-24 19:14   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-04-24 19:25     ` John Stultz
2012-04-24 19:33       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-04-25 12:16   ` Dmitry Adamushko
2012-04-25 16:19     ` John Stultz
2012-04-26 10:00       ` Dmitry Adamushko
2012-04-27 19:34         ` John Stultz
2012-04-24 17:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] fadvise: Add _VOLATILE,_ISVOLATILE, and _NONVOLATILE flags John Stultz
2012-04-24 19:20   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-04-24 19:50     ` John Stultz
2012-04-27  0:39   ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-27 15:25     ` Dave Hansen
2012-04-28  1:36       ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-30 21:07         ` John Stultz
2012-05-01  0:08           ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-01  0:46             ` John Stultz
2012-05-01  1:28               ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-27 19:14     ` John Stultz
2012-04-28  2:04       ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-30 19:40         ` John Stultz
2012-05-01  0:28           ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-01  1:15             ` John Stultz
2012-05-01  1:51               ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-24 17:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] [RFC] ashmem: Convert ashmem to use volatile ranges John Stultz
2012-04-24 19:21   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-04-24 19:42     ` John Stultz

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