linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] MADV

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Message-ID: <20151125173646.GA10156@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:36:46 -0500
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jason Evans <je@...com>, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	yalin.wang2010@...il.com, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] MADV_FREE support

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:53:18AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> That's really what we(Daniel, Michael and me) want so far.
> A people who is reluctant to it is Johannes who wanted to support
> MADV_FREE on swapless system via new LRU from the beginning.
> 
> If Johannes is not strong against Andrew's plan, I will resend
> new patchset(ie, not including new stuff) based on next -mmotm.
> 
> Hannes?

Yeah, let's shelve the new stuff for now and get this going. As Daniel
said, the feature is already useful, and we can improve it later on.
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