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Message-ID: <CAOJsxLHOdnQKSfLqFG4hdabhuwhHt+HqKGerP23YuNQc4TZS_g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:01:45 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	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 0/5] Some vmevent fixes...

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> wrote:
>> That's what Nokia's lowmem notifier uses. We can probably drop them
>> once we have something else they could use.
>
> Next concern is that periodic timer of implementation.
> I think it would add direct hook in vmscan.c rather than peeking raw vmstat periodically by timer
> so we can control more fine-grained way without unnecessary overhead.

If the hooks are clean and it doesn't hurt the  !CONFIG_VMEVENT case,
I'm completely OK with that.
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