Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755298AbbKDIPS (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2015 03:15:18 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:38483 "EHLO mail-wi0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753918AbbKDIPP (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2015 03:15:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 09:15:12 +0100 From: Michal Hocko To: Minchan Kim Cc: Shaohua Li , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Michael Kerrisk , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Johannes Weiner , zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com, Rik van Riel , Mel Gorman , KOSAKI Motohiro , Jason Evans , Daniel Micay , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , yalin.wang2010@gmail.com, "Wang, Yalin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] mm: move lazily freed pages to inactive list Message-ID: <20151104081512.GB29607@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1446188504-28023-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <1446188504-28023-6-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <20151030172212.GB44946@kernel.org> <20151103005223.GD17906@bbox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151103005223.GD17906@bbox> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 19 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/