From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756835Ab2ADUSz (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:18:55 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47388 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753900Ab2ADUSw (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:18:52 -0500 Message-ID: <4F04B3F0.6080103@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:17:52 -0500 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Leonid Moiseichuk , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cesarb@cesarb.net, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, emunson@mgebm.net, penberg@kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, rientjes@google.com, dima@android.com, rebecca@android.com, san@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, vesa.jaaskelainen@nokia.com, Minchan Kim , KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2.0-rc1 0/3] Used Memory Meter pseudo-device and related changes in MM References: <20120104195612.GB19181@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20120104195612.GB19181@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/04/2012 02:56 PM, Greg KH wrote: > How does this compare with the lowmemorykiller.c driver from the android > developers that is currently in the linux-next tree? Also, the low memory notification that Kosaki-san has worked on, and which Minchan is looking at now. We seem to have many mechanisms under development, all aimed at similar goals. I believe it would be good to agree on one mechanism that could solve multiple of these goals at once, instead of sticking a handful of different partial solutions in the kernel... Exactly what is the problem you are trying to solve? -- All rights reversed