On 02/10/2017 08:59 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 10-02-17 08:51:49, Greg KH wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 08:21:32AM +0100, peter enderborg wrote: > [...] >>> Until then we have to polish this version as good as we can. It is >>> essential for android as it is now. >> But if no one is willing to do the work to fix the reported issues, why >> should it remain? Can you do the work here? You're already working on >> fixing some of the issues in a differnt way, why not do the "real work" >> here instead for everyone to benifit from? > Well, to be honest, I do not think that the current code is easily > fixable. This patch improves the current situation and address some of the issues that makes android devices behaviour different than other linux systems. > The approach was wrong from the day 1. Abusing slab shrinkers > is just a bad place to stick this logic. This all belongs to the > userspace. But now it is there and we have to stick with it. > For that we need a proper mm pressure notification which is > supposed to be vmpressure but that one also doesn't seem to work all > that great. So rather than trying to fix unfixable I would stronly > suggest focusing on making vmpressure work reliably. -- 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>
