Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757255Ab0KOHJp (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:09:45 -0500 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:52286 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755276Ab0KOHJn (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:09:43 -0500 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Minchan Kim Subject: Re: fadvise DONTNEED implementation (or lack thereof) Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Ben Gamari , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rsync@lists.samba.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Peter Zijlstra , Wu Fengguang In-Reply-To: References: <20101114140920.E013.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-Id: <20101115160413.BF0F.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:09:37 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 21 > > Because we have an alternative solution already. please try memcgroup :) > > I think memcg could be a solution of them but fundamental solution is > that we have to cure it in VM itself. > I feel it's absolutely absurd to enable and use memcg for amending it. > > I wonder what's the problem in Peter's patch 'drop behind'. > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg179576.html > > Could anyone tell me why it can't accept upstream? I don't know the reason. And this one looks reasonable to me. I'm curious the above patch solve rsync issue or not. Minchan, have you tested it yourself? -- 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/