Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Kernel Event Notifications (was: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck) | Date | Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:55:31 +0300 |
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KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > And from a performance point of view letting applications voluntarily > > > free some memory is better even than starting to swap. > > > > Absolutely. > > the mem_notify patch can realize "just before starting swapping" > notification :) > > to be honest, I don't know fs guys requirement. > if lacking feature of fs guys needed, I implement it with presure if > you tell me it.
These notifications are really useful, but it may be much wiser to pipe them thru some kevent-notification sub-system, instead of introducing kernel notifier-chain end-points left, right, and center.
Thanks!
-- Al
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