On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:59:02 +0900 KOSAKI Motohiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > the core of this patch series. > > > add /dev/mem_notify device for notification low memory to user process. > > > > As you only wake one process how would you use this API from processes > > which want to monitor and can free memory under load. Also what fairness > > guarantees are there... > > Sorry, I don't make sense what you mean fairness. > Could you tell more? If you have two processes each waiting on mem_notify is it not possible that one of them will keep being the one woken up and the other will remain stuck ? It also appears there is no way to wait for memory shortages (processes that can free memory easily) only for memory to start appearing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
