From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f70.google.com (mail-pg0-f70.google.com [74.125.83.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B73E4405AD for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:31:11 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pg0-f70.google.com with SMTP id f5so180499339pgi.1 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 06:31:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org. [140.211.169.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5si3899161plc.226.2017.02.15.06.31.10 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 06:31:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 06:31:10 -0800 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 staging-next] android: Collect statistics from lowmemorykiller Message-ID: <20170215143110.GC11454@kroah.com> References: <20170214160932.4988-1-peter.enderborg@sonymobile.com> <20170214165102.GE17335@kroah.com> 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: peter enderborg Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, riandrews@android.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, arve@android.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:21:56AM +0100, peter enderborg wrote: > On 02/14/2017 05:51 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 05:09:30PM +0100, peter.enderborg@sonymobile.com wrote: > >> From: Peter Enderborg > >> > >> This collects stats for shrinker calls and how much > >> waste work we do within the lowmemorykiller. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Peter Enderborg > > Wait, what changed from the previous versions of this patch? Did you > > take the review comments into consideration, or is this just a resend of > > the original patches in a format that isn't corrupted? > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > This is just a send with git-send-email that seems to work better. Nothing > else than tab-spaces should be different. I would like to have some positive > feedback from google/android before I start to send updated patches to the list. > If google are ready for the userspace solution this patch set is pointless for > upstream kernel. > > Michal Hocko is very negative to hole thing, but we have addressed at least some > issues he pointed out on the list in 2015. Is there any idea to continue? If Michal rejected this solution, then I wouldn't be spending much time on it at all. Instead, I strongly suggest you try to do what he pointed out should be done instead. If that requires userspace help, great, try that and see what happens. thanks, greg k-h -- 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