From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:59:02 +0900 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/5] add /dev/mem_notify device In-Reply-To: <20080115104619.10dab6de@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20080115100029.1178.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080115104619.10dab6de@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-Id: <20080115195022.11A3.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: Alan Cox Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti , Daniel Spang , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton List-ID: > > 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... Sorry, I don't make sense what you mean fairness. Could you tell more? -- 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