From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:35:46 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 4/4] VM: automatic reclaim through mempolicy Message-Id: <20050427163546.7654efc1.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050427151010.GV8018@localhost> References: <20050427145734.GL8018@localhost> <20050427151010.GV8018@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Martin Hicks Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, raybry@sgi.com, ak@suse.de List-ID: Martin Hicks wrote: > > This implements a set of flags that modify the behavior > of the the mempolicies to allow reclaiming of preferred > memory (as definited by the mempolicy) before spilling > onto remote nodes. It also adds a new mempolicy > "localreclaim" which is just the default mempolicy with > non-zero reclaim flags. My attention span expired, and I'm not super-familiar with the mempolicy stuff anyway. > The change required adding a "flags" argument to sys_set_mempolicy() > to give hints about what kind of memory you're willing to sacrifice. This is a back-compatible change, so current userspace will continue to work OK, yes? -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org