From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx111.postini.com [74.125.245.111]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D84C6B004F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:01:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] /dev/low_mem_notify From: Pekka Enberg In-Reply-To: <20120124154001.GB10990@amt.cnet> References: <1326788038-29141-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <1326788038-29141-2-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <4F15A34F.40808@redhat.com> <20120124154001.GB10990@amt.cnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:01:20 +0200 Message-ID: <1327420880.13624.24.camel@jaguar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Rik van Riel , Minchan Kim , linux-mm , LKML , leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, rientjes@google.com, KOSAKI Motohiro , Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , Ronen Hod , KOSAKI Motohiro On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:40 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > What is the practical advantage of a syscall, again? Why do you ask? The advantage for this particular case is not needing to add ioctls() for configuration and keeping the file read/write ABI simple. Pekka -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. 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: email@kvack.org