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From: <leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com>
To: <penberg@kernel.org>, <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: <rhod@redhat.com>, <riel@redhat.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>, <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC 1/3] /dev/low_mem_notify
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:19:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84FF21A720B0874AA94B46D76DB9826904562B60@008-AM1MPN1-003.mgdnok.nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327421440.13624.30.camel@jaguar>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Pekka Enberg [mailto:penberg@kernel.org]
> Sent: 24 January, 2012 18:11
> To: Marcelo Tosatti
....
> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:38 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Having userspace specify the "sample period" for low memory
> > notification makes no sense. The frequency of notifications is a
> > function of the memory pressure.
> 
> Sure, it makes sense to autotune sample period. I don't see the problem
> with letting userspace decide it for themselves if they want to.
> 
> 			Pekka
Good point, but you must take into account that reaction time in user-space depends how SW stack is organized.
So for some components 1s is good enough update time,  for another cases 10ms.
If changes on VM happened too often they had no sense for user-space.

Thus from practical point of view having sampling period is not a bad idea.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-25  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-17  8:13 [RFC 0/3] low memory notify Minchan Kim
2012-01-17  8:13 ` [RFC 1/3] /dev/low_mem_notify Minchan Kim
2012-01-17  9:27   ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 16:35     ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-17 18:51       ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 19:30         ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-17 19:49           ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 19:54             ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 19:57             ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 23:20         ` Minchan Kim
2012-01-18  7:16           ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-18  7:49             ` Minchan Kim
2012-01-18  9:06         ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-01-18  9:15           ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-18  9:41             ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-01-18 10:40               ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-18 10:44                 ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-01-18 23:34                   ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-19  7:25                     ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-19  9:05                       ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-19  9:10                         ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-19  9:20                           ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-19 10:53                             ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-01-19 11:07                               ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-19 11:54                                 ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-01-19 11:59                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-19 12:06                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-24 15:38                               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-24 16:08                                 ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-24 18:10                                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-25  8:52                                     ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-25 10:12                                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-25 10:48                                         ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-26 16:17                                           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-24 16:10                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-24 18:29                                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-25  8:19                                   ` leonid.moiseichuk [this message]
2012-01-19  7:34                   ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-24 16:22             ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-18 14:30           ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-18 15:29             ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-24 15:40         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-24 16:01           ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-24 16:25             ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-24 18:32               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-24 21:57         ` Jonathan Corbet
2012-01-17  9:45   ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17  8:13 ` [RFC 2/3] vmscan hook Minchan Kim
2012-01-17  8:39   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-17  9:13     ` Minchan Kim
2012-01-17 10:05       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-17 23:08         ` Minchan Kim
2012-01-18  0:18           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-18 14:17             ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-19  2:25               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19 14:42                 ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-20  0:24                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-17  8:13 ` [RFC 3/3] test program Minchan Kim
2012-01-17 14:38 ` [RFC 0/3] low memory notify Colin Walters
2012-01-17 15:04   ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 16:44   ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-17 17:16 ` Olof Johansson

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