On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:53:49AM -0800, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > Hi all, > > This is the third RFC. As suggested by Minchan Kim, the API is much > simplified now (comparing to vmevent_fd): > > - As well as Minchan, KOSAKI Motohiro didn't like the timers, so the > timers are gone now; > - Pekka Enberg didn't like the complex attributes matching code, and so it > is no longer there; > - Nobody liked the raw vmstat attributes, and so they were eliminated too. > > But, conceptually, it is the exactly the same approach as in v2: three > discrete levels of the pressure -- low, medium and oom. The levels are > based on the reclaimer inefficiency index as proposed by Mel Gorman, but > userland does not see the raw index values. The description why I moved > away from reporting the raw 'reclaimer inefficiency index' can be found in > v2: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/22/177 > > While the new API is very simple, it is still extensible (i.e. versioned). Sorry, I didn't follow previous discussion on this, but could you explain what's wrong with memory notifications from memcg? As I can see you can get pretty similar functionality using memory thresholds on the root cgroup. What's the point? -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
