From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm, thp: add new background defrag option
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:01:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170110130146.GF28025@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1701091818340.61862@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Mon 09-01-17 18:19:56, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2017, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>
> > > Any suggestions for a better name for "background" are more than welcome.
> >
> > Why not just "madvise+defer"?
> >
>
> Seeing no other activity regarding this issue (omg!), I'll wait a day or
> so to see if there are any objections to "madvise+defer" or suggestions
> that may be better and repost.
madvise+defer is much better than background. So if the combined (flag
like approach) is too risky then I am OK with that.
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Michal Hocko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-10 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-04 23:41 David Rientjes
2017-01-05 10:13 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-05 10:33 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-05 13:58 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-05 15:50 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-05 22:54 ` David Rientjes
2017-01-06 8:41 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-06 14:01 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-06 22:20 ` David Rientjes
2017-01-09 10:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-09 12:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-10 2:19 ` David Rientjes
2017-01-10 3:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2017-01-10 8:44 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-10 23:52 ` David Rientjes
2017-01-10 13:01 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-01-11 0:15 ` [patch v2] mm, thp: add new defer+madvise " David Rientjes
2017-01-11 7:35 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-12 8:01 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-11 8:56 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-12 0:16 ` Andrew Morton
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