linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 3/3] man-pages: Add man page for vmpressure

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1211221051130.2205@tux.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:52:15 +0200 (EET)
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.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, 21 Nov 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The proposed API bugs me a bit.  It seems simplistic.  I need to have a
> quality think about this.  Maybe the result of that think will be to
> suggest an interface which can be extended in a back-compatible fashion
> later on, if/when the simplistic nature becomes a problem.

That's exactly why I made a generic vmevent_fd() syscall, not a 'vm 
pressure' specific ABI.

			Pekka
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