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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some vmevent fixes...
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(6/5/12 3:52 AM), Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:05 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> - On desktops, apps can drop their caches on demand if they want to
>>>    and can avoid swap activity?
>>
>> In this case, fallocate(VOLATILE) is work more better.
>
> For some cases, yes, but probably not for all.
>
> For example, if userspace doesn't know about "about to swap real soon"
> condition, it can continue to grow its caches making
> fallocate(VOLATILE) pretty much useless.

Fair enough. But, Please consider your scenario don't need vmevent(2),
cat /proc/meminfo works enough. Only dropping activity need a quick work
and just in time notification. cache growing limitation don't need.