On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 13:22 -0200, Rafael Aquini wrote: > > I think this also gives another usecase for a possible /dev/mem_notify in > > the future: userspace could easily poll on an eventfd and wait for an oom > > to occur and then cat /proc/slabinfo to attain all this. In other words, > > if we had this functionality (which I think we undoubtedly will in the > > future), this patch would be obsoleted. > > Great! So, why not letting the time tell us if this feature will be obsoleted > or not? I'd rather have this patch obsoleted by another one proven better, than > just stay still waiting for something that might, or might not, happen in the > future. Sure. I'm not really convinced such an ABI would be a full replacement for this patch. There's certainly advantages to having all this visible in syslog even if we'd have such a mechanism. Pekka -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>