On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:38:21 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And existing scripts which do not do this will cease to work correctly, > > no? > > > > The existing scritpts won't work correctly. That's also what I have > worried before. > > But under this condition, there's a error message generated by "sysctl > -w" to tell them the first setting was failure. > This error message may be a reminder to them that there are some > connections between background and direct limit, and should not set > arbitrary. > May that's better. I'm not sure. Maybe we can leave the logic as-is and simply print a warning when an illogical state exists. -- 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>