linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem

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Message-ID: <20080209114329.68820224@bree.surriel.com>
Date:	Sat, 9 Feb 2008 11:43:29 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"Jon Masters" <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Marcelo Tosatti" <marcelo@...ck.org>,
	"Daniel Spang" <daniel.spang@...il.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>, "Al Boldi" <a1426z@...ab.com>,
	"Zan Lynx" <zlynx@....org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:33:49 +0900
"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > Where is the netlink interface? Polling an FD is so last century :)
> 
> to be honest, I don't know anyone use netlink and why hope receive
> low memory notify by netlink.
> 
> poll() is old way, but it works good enough.

More importantly, all gtk+ programs, as well as most databases and other
system daemons have a poll() loop as their main loop.

A file descriptor fits that main loop perfectly.

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