Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:44:52 +0300 | Subject | Re: [RFC v2 0/2] vmevent: A bit reworked pressure attribute + docs + man page | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote: > Your description doesn't include why we need new vmevent_fd(2). > Of course, it's very flexible and potential to add new VM knob easily but > the thing we is about to use now is only VMEVENT_ATTR_PRESSURE. > Is there any other use cases for swap or free? or potential user? > Adding vmevent_fd without them is rather overkill.
What ABI would you use instead?
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote: > I don't object but we need rationale for adding new system call which should > be maintained forever once we add it.
Agreed.
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