From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC886B00B5 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:34:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d23relay02.au.ibm.com (d23relay02.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.244]) by e23smtp08.au.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n2N8ZJiL021624 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:35:19 +1100 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (d23av04.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.139]) by d23relay02.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n2N8ZatG1138942 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:35:36 +1100 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n2N8ZI9G021885 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:35:19 +1100 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:05:06 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Memory controller soft limit patches (v7) Message-ID: <20090323083506.GN24227@balbir.in.ibm.com> Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20090319165713.27274.94129.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20090323125005.0d8a7219.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090323052247.GJ24227@balbir.in.ibm.com> <20090323151245.d6430aaa.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090323151703.de2bf9db.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090323151703.de2bf9db.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, YAMAMOTO Takashi , lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, KOSAKI Motohiro , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton List-ID: * KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [2009-03-23 15:17:03]: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:12:45 +0900 > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:52:47 +0530 > > Balbir Singh wrote: > > > I have one large swap partition, so I could not test the partial-swap > > > scenario. > > > > > plz go ahead as you like, Seems no landing point now and I'd like to see > > what I can, later. I'll send no ACK nor NACK, more. > > > But I dislike the whole concept, at all. > Kame, if you dislike it please don't enable memory.soft_limit_in_bytes. After having sent several revisions of your own patchset and helping me with review of several revisions, your sudden dislike comes as a surprise. Please NOTE: I am not saying we'll never see any of the reclaim changes you are suggesting, all I am saying is lets do enough test to prove it is needed. Lets get the functionality right and then optimize if we have to. -- Balbir -- 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