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From: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pass priority to shrink_slab
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:24:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=+S25eBw5+-bcFAwRLOH-LPh--Tg72rohZJvzX@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101118085921.GA11314@amd>

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> wrote:
> FWIW, we can just add this to the new shrinker API, and convert over
> the users who care about it, so it doesn't have to be done in a big
> patch.

I also don't like that adding a shrinker parameter requires trivial
changes in every place that defines a shrinker.

I was wondering, could we just add a new structure for shrinker
parameters ? Your proposal of having parallel 'old' and 'new' APIs
works if this is a one-time change, but seems awkward if we want to
add additional parameters later on...

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-18  4:34 Ying Han
2010-11-18  8:59 ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-18 10:06   ` Ying Han
2010-11-18 10:24   ` Michel Lespinasse [this message]
2010-11-19 22:25   ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-20  3:23     ` Ying Han
2010-11-22 23:06       ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-23  2:09         ` Michel Lespinasse
2010-11-23  2:26           ` Andrew Morton

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