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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Jason Evans <je@fb.com>, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	yalin.wang2010@gmail.com, "Wang,
	Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@sonymobile.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] mm: move lazily freed pages to inactive list
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 09:15:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151104081512.GB29607@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151103005223.GD17906@bbox>

On Tue 03-11-15 09:52:23, Minchan Kim wrote:
[...]
> I believe adding new LRU list would be controversial(ie, not trivial)
> for maintainer POV even though code wouldn't be complicated.
> So, I want to see problems in *real practice*, not any theoritical
> test program before diving into that.
> To see such voice of request, we should release the syscall.
> So, I want to push this first.

Completely agreed. The functionality is useful already and a new LRU
list is not justified yet.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Jason Evans <je@fb.com>, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	yalin.wang2010@gmail.com, "Wang,
	Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@sonymobile.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] mm: move lazily freed pages to inactive list
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 09:15:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151104081512.GB29607@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151103005223.GD17906@bbox>

On Tue 03-11-15 09:52:23, Minchan Kim wrote:
[...]
> I believe adding new LRU list would be controversial(ie, not trivial)
> for maintainer POV even though code wouldn't be complicated.
> So, I want to see problems in *real practice*, not any theoritical
> test program before diving into that.
> To see such voice of request, we should release the syscall.
> So, I want to push this first.

Completely agreed. The functionality is useful already and a new LRU
list is not justified yet.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-04  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-30  7:01 [PATCH 0/8] MADV_FREE support Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01 ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01 ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE) Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01   ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30 16:49   ` Shaohua Li
2015-10-30 16:49     ` Shaohua Li
2015-11-03  0:10     ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  0:10       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  0:10       ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: define MADV_FREE for some arches Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01   ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01 ` [PATCH 3/8] arch: uapi: asm: mman.h: Let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01   ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01   ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-02  0:08   ` Hugh Dickins
2015-11-02  0:08     ` Hugh Dickins
2015-11-02  0:08     ` Hugh Dickins
2015-11-02  0:08     ` Hugh Dickins
2015-11-03  2:32     ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  2:32       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  2:32       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  2:32       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  2:36       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  2:36         ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  2:36         ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  2:36         ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  3:36         ` David Miller
2015-11-03  3:36           ` David Miller
2015-11-03  3:36           ` David Miller
2015-11-03  4:31           ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  4:31             ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  4:31             ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm: free swp_entry in madvise_free Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01   ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30 12:28   ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-30 12:28     ` Michal Hocko
2015-11-03  0:53     ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  0:53       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  0:53       ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm: move lazily freed pages to inactive list Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01   ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30 17:22   ` Shaohua Li
2015-10-30 17:22     ` Shaohua Li
2015-10-30 17:22     ` Shaohua Li
2015-11-03  0:52     ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  0:52       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  0:52       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  8:15       ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2015-11-04  8:15         ` Michal Hocko
2015-11-04 17:53       ` Shaohua Li
2015-11-04 17:53         ` Shaohua Li
2015-11-04 17:53         ` Shaohua Li
2015-11-04 18:20         ` Shaohua Li
2015-11-04 18:20           ` Shaohua Li
2015-11-05  1:11           ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-05  1:11             ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-05  1:03         ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-05  1:03           ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-05  1:03           ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-04 20:55   ` Johannes Weiner
2015-11-04 20:55     ` Johannes Weiner
2015-11-04 20:55     ` Johannes Weiner
2015-11-04 21:48     ` Daniel Micay
2015-11-04 21:48       ` Daniel Micay
2015-11-04 22:55       ` Johannes Weiner
2015-11-04 22:55         ` Johannes Weiner
2015-11-04 22:55         ` Johannes Weiner
2015-11-04 23:36         ` Daniel Micay
2015-11-04 23:49           ` Daniel Micay
2015-11-04 23:49             ` Daniel Micay
2015-10-30  7:01 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm: lru_deactivate_fn should clear PG_referenced Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01   ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30 12:47   ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-30 12:47     ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-30 12:47     ` Michal Hocko
2015-11-03  1:10     ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  1:10       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  8:22       ` Michal Hocko
2015-11-04  8:22         ` Michal Hocko
2015-11-04  8:22         ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-30  7:01 ` [PATCH 7/8] mm: clear PG_dirty to mark page freeable Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01   ` Minchan Kim
2015-10-30 12:55   ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-30 12:55     ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-30 12:55     ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-30  7:01 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm: mark stable page dirty in KSM Minchan Kim
2015-10-30  7:01   ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-01  4:51 ` [PATCH 0/8] MADV_FREE support David Rientjes
2015-11-01  4:51   ` David Rientjes
2015-11-01  4:51   ` David Rientjes
2015-11-01  6:29   ` Daniel Micay
2015-11-03  2:23     ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  2:23       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-03  2:23       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-04 20:19     ` David Rientjes
2015-11-04 20:19       ` David Rientjes

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