From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wj0-f200.google.com (mail-wj0-f200.google.com [209.85.210.200]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1896B0038 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2017 08:01:49 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wj0-f200.google.com with SMTP id qs7so86948102wjc.4 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2017 05:01:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m70si1862511wmg.143.2017.01.10.05.01.48 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 10 Jan 2017 05:01:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:01:46 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [patch] mm, thp: add new background defrag option Message-ID: <20170110130146.GF28025@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20170105101330.bvhuglbbeudubgqb@techsingularity.net> <558ce85c-4cb4-8e56-6041-fc4bce2ee27f@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Vlastimil Babka , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org 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. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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