Hello Michal, On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 09:59:21AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 26-06-13 16:50:51, Minchan Kim wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 05:51:29PM -0400, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > > > Currently, applications are notified for the level they registered for > > > _plus_ higher levels. > > > > > > This is a problem if the application wants to implement different > > > actions for different levels. For example, an application might want > > > to release 10% of its cache on level low, 50% on medium and 100% on > > > critical. To do this, the application has to register a different fd > > > for each event. However, fd low is always going to be notified and > > > and all fds are going to be notified on level critical. > > > > > > Strict mode solves this problem by strictly notifiying the event > > > an fd has registered for. It's optional. By default we still notify > > > on higher levels. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Shouldn't we make this default? > > The interface is not there for long but still, changing it is always > quite tricky. And the users who care can be modified really easily so I > would stick with the original default. Yeb, I am not strong against to stick old at a moment but at least, this patch makes more sense to me so I'd like to know why we didn't do it from the beginning. Surely, Anton has a answer. > > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs > > -- > 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> -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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>