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Message-Id: <20121119215211.6370ac3b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:52:11 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Leonid Moiseichuk <leonid.moiseichuk@...ia.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.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,
	linux-man@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] man-pages: Add man page for vmpressure_fd(2)

On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 03:01:52 -0800 Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org> wrote:

>        Upon  these  notifications,  userland programs can cooperate with
>        the kernel, achieving better system's memory management.

Well I read through the whole thread and afaict the above is the only
attempt to describe why this patchset exists!

How about we step away from implementation details for a while and
discuss observed problems, use-cases, requirements and such?  What are
we actually trying to achieve here?
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