On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 05:51:29PM -0400, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > Currently, applications are notified for the level they registered for > _plus_ higher levels. > > This is a problem if the application wants to implement different > actions for different levels. For example, an application might want > to release 10% of its cache on level low, 50% on medium and 100% on > critical. To do this, the application has to register a different fd > for each event. However, fd low is always going to be notified and > and all fds are going to be notified on level critical. > > Strict mode solves this problem by strictly notifiying the event > an fd has registered for. It's optional. By default we still notify > on higher levels. > > Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitul...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>
Shouldn't we make this default? What do you think about it? -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
