Hi Andrew, On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 01:58:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:02:32 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I have been spent a lot of time to land MADV_FREE feature > > by request of userland people(esp, Daniel and Jason, jemalloc guys. > > A couple of things... > > There's a massive and complex reject storm against Kirill's page-flags > and thp changes. The problems in hugetlb.c are more than I can > reasonably fix up, sorry. How would you feel about redoing the patches > against next -mm? No problem at all. > > Secondly, "mm: introduce lazyfree LRU list" and "mm: support MADV_FREE > on swapless system" are new, and require significant reviewer > attention. But there's so much other stuff flying around that I doubt > if we'll get effective review. So perhaps it would be best to shelve > those new things and introduce them later, after the basic old > MADV_FREE work has settled in? > That's really what we(Daniel, Michael and me) want so far. A people who is reluctant to it is Johannes who wanted to support MADV_FREE on swapless system via new LRU from the beginning. If Johannes is not strong against Andrew's plan, I will resend new patchset(ie, not including new stuff) based on next -mmotm. Hannes? -- 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>