Messages in this thread | | | From | Shakeel Butt <> | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 2021 06:46:06 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm: introduce process_mrelease system call |
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 1:53 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote: > [...] > > However > > retrying means issuing another syscall, so additional overhead... > > I guess such "best effort" approach would be unusual for a syscall, so > > maybe we can keep it as it is now and if such "do not block" mode is needed > > we can use flags to implement it later? > > Yeah, an explicit opt-in via flags would be an option if that turns out > to be really necessary. >
I am fine with keeping it as it is but we do need the non-blocking option (via flags) to enable userspace to act more aggressively.
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