linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] vmevent: Implement special low-memory attribute

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Date:	Tue, 8 May 2012 08:53:56 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
Cc:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Leonid Moiseichuk <leonid.moiseichuk@...ia.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	patches@...aro.org, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] vmevent: Implement special low-memory attribute

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:42 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@...il.com> wrote:
>> That said, I think you are being unfair to Anton who's one of the few
>> that's actually taking the time to implement this properly instead of
>> settling for an out-of-tree hack.
>
> Unfair? But only I can talk about technical comment. To be honest, I
> really dislike
> I need say the same explanation again and again. A lot of people don't read
> past discussion. And as far as the patches take the same mistake, I must say
> the same thing. It is just PITA.

Unfair because you are trying to make it look as if Anton is only
concerned with his specific use case. That's simply not true.

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:42 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@...il.com> wrote:
> I don't disagree vmevent notification itself, but I must disagree lie
> notification.
> And also, To make just idea statistics doesn't make sense at all. How do an
> application choose the right events? If that depend on hardware configuration,
> userland developers can't write proper applications.

That's exactly the problem we're trying to tackle here! We _want_ the
ABI to provide sane, well-defined events that solve real world
problems.

                        Pekka
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