On 10/7/21 11:34 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: >> Yes, please. It really seems like the folks that are interested in this >> feature want strings. (I certainly do.) > I am sorry but there were no strong arguments mentioned for strings so > far. The folks who want this have maintained an out-of-tree patch using strings. They've maintained it for the better part of a decade. I don't know how widely this shipped in the Android ecosystem, but I suspect we're talking about billions of devices. Right? This is a feature that, if accepted into mainline, will get enabled and used on billions of devices. If we dumb this down to integers, it's not 100% clear that it _will_ get used. That's a pretty strong argument in my book, even if the contributors have difficulty articulating exactly why they want strings.
