On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:10:00 +0200 richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 1:47 PM, PINTU KUMAR <pintu_agarwal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Moreover, this is mainly meant for mobile phones where there is only *one* user. > > I see. Jet another awful hack. > Mobile phones are nothing special. They are computers Correct - so if it is showing up useful situations then they are also useful beyond mobile phone. > Every program which is allowed to use this interface will (ab)use it. If you expose it to userspace then you would want it very tightly controlled and very much special case. Within the kernel using it internally within things like CMA allocators seems to make more sense. I think you overestimate the abuse. It's an interface which pushes clean pages that can be cheaply recovered out of memory. It doesn't guarantee the caller reaps the benefit of that, and the vm will continue to try and share out any new resource fairly. Alan -- 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>