From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F0286B00A7 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:15:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp ([10.0.50.73]) by fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp (Fujitsu Gateway) with ESMTP id n2N6EDpf005897 for (envelope-from kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:14:15 +0900 Received: from smail (m3 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02B945DD87 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:14:12 +0900 (JST) Received: from s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.93]) by m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8F345DD83 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:14:12 +0900 (JST) Received: from s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0253CE08003 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:14:12 +0900 (JST) Received: from ml13.s.css.fujitsu.com (ml13.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.249.87.103]) by s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1EF1DB8042 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:14:11 +0900 (JST) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:12:45 +0900 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Memory controller soft limit patches (v7) Message-Id: <20090323151245.d6430aaa.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20090323052247.GJ24227@balbir.in.ibm.com> References: <20090319165713.27274.94129.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20090323125005.0d8a7219.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090323052247.GJ24227@balbir.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, YAMAMOTO Takashi , lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, KOSAKI Motohiro , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton List-ID: 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 please get ack from someone resposible for glorbal memory reclaim. Especially for hooks in try_to_free_pages(). And please make it clear in documentation that - Depends on the system but this may increase the usage of swap. - Depends on the system but this may not work as the user expected as hard-limit. Considering corner cases, this is a very complicated/usage-is-difficult feature. -Kame -- 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