From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx189.postini.com [74.125.245.189]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B16476B0034 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:47:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 21:47:03 +0200 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmpressure: implement strict mode Message-ID: <20130702194703.GA19373@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <20130625175129.7c0d79e1@redhat.com> <20130701085103.GA19798@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <20130702110628.5dbb75e0@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130702110628.5dbb75e0@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Luiz Capitulino Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mhocko@suse.cz, minchan@kernel.org, anton@enomsg.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org On Tue 2013-07-02 11:06:28, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 10:51:03 +0200 > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt > > > index ddf4f93..3c589cf 100644 > > > --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt > > > +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt > > > @@ -807,12 +807,14 @@ register a notification, an application must: > > > > > > - create an eventfd using eventfd(2); > > > - open memory.pressure_level; > > > -- write string like " " > > > +- write string like " [strict]" > > > to cgroup.event_control. > > > > > > > This is.. pretty strange interface. Would it be cleaner to do ioctl()? > > New syscall? > > Are you referring to my new mode or to the whole thing? Well. The interface was already very strange and you made it even worse. For example... How is the string terminated? \0? \n? Not at all? Needs to be written in single write? How many spaces are allowed? Can I put there \t? How many leading zeros? How do you know that you can stop looking for "strict" string? Dunno. Passing fd by writting it out in ascii is strange. (And writing fd in ascii to the same fd is ... very strange.) Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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