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

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Message-ID: <CAOJsxLEm2LfBB031-pU5Srhr+=DVDCmexZm_UczCzqQ2JmgoRw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 May 2012 12:19:57 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	leonid.moiseichuk@...ia.com
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...il.com, anton.vorontsov@...aro.org,
	minchan@...nel.org, 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 12:15 PM,  <leonid.moiseichuk@...ia.com> wrote:
> I am tracking conversation with quite low understanding how it will be useful for
> practical needs because user-space developers in 80% cases needs to track
> simply dirty memory changes i.e. modified pages which cannot be dropped.

The point is to support those cases in such a way that works sanely
across different architectures and configurations.
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