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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@gmail.com>,
	Arve Hj?nnev?g <arve@android.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>,
	arve@google.com, San Mehat <san@android.com>,
	Robert Love <rlove@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	ext Juha Yrj?l? <juha.yrjola@solidboot.com>,
	viktor.rosendahl@nokia.com
Subject: Re: lowmemory android driver not needed?
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:23:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090116152338.GB9357@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f11576a0901160316u20030f4u51c9e4c059398b70@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 08:16:51PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> 
> As far as I know, embedded guys strong want to lowmem notification mecanism.

I think the big server guys also want the same thing :)

> At least, I and my mem_notify receive multiple contact from embedded
> and JavaVM developer.
>  (include sun javavm engineer)
> 
> In ideal, I think linux MM should care this requirement directly.

I agree.

> LSM and driver notifier is easy breakable because these component
> deeply depend on MM.

Agreed.

> (eg, I developed /dev/mem_notify patch last year. but this patch don't
> work on 2.6.28 because split-lru patch series totally changed MM
> reclaim processing.)
> 
> Unfortunately, we don't have any consensus of memory notification requirement.
> various people have various requirement. so, if I can discuss it and
> we get consensus, I'm glad.

Care to work on your mem_notify patch again and bring it up to date?
That would be a good place to start working from, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-16 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-14  1:02 Greg KH
2009-01-14  2:18 ` Brian Swetland
2009-01-14  2:30   ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-14  3:52     ` Greg KH
2009-01-14 10:43       ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-14 10:48         ` Alan Cox
2009-01-14 12:18           ` MinChan Kim
2009-01-14 22:26           ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-14 23:17             ` Greg KH
2009-01-14 23:32               ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-15  0:12                 ` Greg KH
2009-01-15  0:54                   ` [PATCH] Staging: android: Add lowmemorykiller documentation Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-15  0:59                     ` Greg KH
2009-01-15 13:32                   ` lowmemory android driver not needed? Trilok Soni
2009-01-15 23:44                     ` Greg KH
2009-01-16  9:02                       ` Paul Mundt
2009-01-16 11:16                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-16 15:23                           ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-01-21  2:50                             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-21  3:05                               ` Paul Mundt
2009-01-21  3:29                               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-04-01 18:38                               ` Trilok Soni
2009-04-01 19:33                                 ` David Rientjes
2009-02-03 20:55                         ` Tony Lindgren
2009-01-16 11:42                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-16 13:18                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-22  6:13                         ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-29  1:48                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-29  2:51                             ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-29  3:45                               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-01-29  4:27                                 ` Greg KH
2009-01-29  4:43                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-29  4:59                                     ` Greg KH
2009-01-29  5:29                                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-30  6:20                                         ` Greg KH
2009-01-30  6:41                                           ` Brian Swetland
2009-02-03 13:40                                             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-29 22:06                               ` Pavel Machek
2009-02-03 14:08                                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-15  7:55           ` David Rientjes
2009-01-14  6:45     ` MinChan Kim

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