Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755657AbYBIQq1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 11:46:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753747AbYBIQqN (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 11:46:13 -0500 Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.238]:62435 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753132AbYBIQqM (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 11:46:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=gpa4Ioxrzp/wRFqB7trS0tmXCPgzAN+F8tCUNeRd8fJeXXBwmL4EVdPlV5Qk7IbTIKCVIP/KC6wgkekbkTsW9EhF4SEZUgh9/CnTescRZOxd+Ygn1+SD2y9zmJ3SFquuYMpAKYlf/972ByFyz3Bxlpe+5o4wZnCsGFzBIhIwOVU= Message-ID: <2f11576a0802090846t7655e988pb1b712696cad1098@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:46:06 +0900 From: "KOSAKI Motohiro" To: "Jon Masters" Subject: Re: [sample] mem_notify v6: usage example Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Marcelo Tosatti" , "Daniel Spang" , "Rik van Riel" , "Andrew Morton" , "Alan Cox" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "Pavel Machek" , "Al Boldi" , "Zan Lynx" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2f11576a0802090755n123c9b7dh26e0af6a2fef28af@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: bfee63bdb5ab5ebe Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 820 Lines: 23 Hi Jon > This really needs to be triggered via a generic kernel event in the > final version - I picture glibc having a reservation API and having > generic support for freeing such reservations. to be honest, I doubt idea of generic reservation framework. end up, we hope drop the application cache, not also dataless memory. but, automatically drop mechanism only able to drop dataless memory. and, many application have own memory management subsystem. I afraid to nobody use too complex framework. What do you think it? I hope see your API. please post it. Thanks! -- 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/