On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > Hello Hugh, > > > > > > Thanks a lot for reviewing this. > > > > And thanks for your thorough reply, though I take issue with some of it :) > > > [...] > > > > I'll think about it more. > > Andrew, please ignore my reservations about Andrea's KSM max sharing > patch. The diversions I created (IPIs etc), and my rash promise to > think about it more, are serving no purpose but to delay a fix to a > real problem. Even if this fix is not quite what I dreamt of, it has > the great commendation of being self-contained within ksm.c, affecting > nothing else: so long as Andrea has time to support it, I think we're > good with it. Let Mel or I come up with better when we've devised it: > but I doubt that will be soon (I got no further on what else to do > about the compaction-migration case). OK, thanks, I'll send it Linuswards next week. http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ksm-introduce-ksm_max_page_sharing-per-page-deduplication-limit.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ksm-introduce-ksm_max_page_sharing-per-page-deduplication-limit-fix-2.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ksm-introduce-ksm_max_page_sharing-per-page-deduplication-limit-fix-3.patch -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>