From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:46:19 +0000 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/5] add /dev/mem_notify device Message-ID: <20080115104619.10dab6de@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080115100029.1178.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20080115092828.116F.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080115100029.1178.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti , Daniel Spang , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton List-ID: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:01:21 +0900 KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > the core of this patch series. > add /dev/mem_notify device for notification low memory to user process. As you only wake one process how would you use this API from processes which want to monitor and can free memory under load. Also what fairness guarantees are there... Alan -- 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: email@kvack.org