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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some vmevent fixes...
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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
>> That's what Nokia's lowmem notifier uses. We can probably drop them
>> once we have something else they could use.
>
> Next concern is that periodic timer of implementation.
> I think it would add direct hook in vmscan.c rather than peeking raw vmstat periodically by timer
> so we can control more fine-grained way without unnecessary overhead.

If the hooks are clean and it doesn't hurt the  !CONFIG_VMEVENT case,
I'm completely OK with that.