From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx175.postini.com [74.125.245.175]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6397F6B004D for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:29:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by obbta7 with SMTP id ta7so5601392obb.14 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:29:33 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4F16D79C.2020402@redhat.com> References: <1326788038-29141-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <1326788038-29141-2-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <4F15A34F.40808@redhat.com> <84FF21A720B0874AA94B46D76DB98269045596AE@008-AM1MPN1-003.mgdnok.nokia.com> <4F16D79C.2020402@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:29:33 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] /dev/low_mem_notify From: Pekka Enberg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Rik van Riel Cc: leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com, minchan@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, rientjes@google.com, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, rhod@redhat.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: > That seems like a horrible idea, because there is no guarantee that > the kernel will continue to use NR_ACTIVE_ANON and NR_ACTIVE_FILE > internally in the future. > > What is exported to userspace must be somewhat independent of the > specifics of how the kernel implements things internally. Exactly, that's what I'm also interested in. Pekka -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org