From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757972AbZEFRu7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 13:50:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753628AbZEFRuu (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 13:50:50 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:39134 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753323AbZEFRuu (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 13:50:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 19:47:05 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Chris Wright , Izik Eidus , Rik van Riel , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, device@lanana.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ksm: change the KSM_REMOVE_MEMORY_REGION ioctl. Message-ID: <20090506174705.GB16078@random.random> References: <1241475935-21162-3-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1241475935-21162-4-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <4A00DF9B.1080501@redhat.com> <4A014C7B.9080702@redhat.com> <20090506133434.GX16078@random.random> <4A019719.7030504@redhat.com> <20090506164945.GD15712@x200.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 05:57:14PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > No need to decide today anyway: let's see how others feel. It guess is decided today, the length of this thread is enough regardless of its content. To me madvise looks overdesign but then I'm also sure KSM is here to stay and it'll soon swap too, so I think it's no problem at all, if part of it is always present in the VM core. KSM=N must stay for embedded. Not sure if it worth to keep KSM=M.