Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752625AbYAOK7c (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:59:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751029AbYAOK7Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:59:24 -0500 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:35591 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750858AbYAOK7X (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:59:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:59:02 +0900 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/5] add /dev/mem_notify device Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti , Daniel Spang , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20080115104619.10dab6de@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20080115100029.1178.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080115104619.10dab6de@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-Id: <20080115195022.11A3.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.42 [ja] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 610 Lines: 19 > > the core of this patch series. > > add /dev/mem_notify device for notification low memory to user process. > > As you only wake one process how would you use this API from processes > which want to monitor and can free memory under load. Also what fairness > guarantees are there... Sorry, I don't make sense what you mean fairness. Could you tell more? -- 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/