Re: Conveying memory pressure to userspace?

2007-05-11 Thread Bas Westerbaan
y, new madvise flag?) and let them register a priority. Then the kernel will keep track of a factor of fairness (<1: not greedy enough; 1> too greedy.)[1]. What about adding a callback when this value deviates a certain amount (<0.8, >1.2)? -- Bas Westerbaan GPG 99BA289B | SINP [EMA

Re: Conveying memory pressure to userspace?

2007-05-11 Thread Bas Westerbaan
madvise flag?) and let them register a priority. Then the kernel will keep track of a factor of fairness (1: not greedy enough; 1 too greedy.)[1]. What about adding a callback when this value deviates a certain amount (0.8, 1.2)? -- Bas Westerbaan GPG 99BA289B | SINP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.w

Conveying memory pressure to userspace?

2007-05-10 Thread Bas Westerbaan
. Bas -- Bas Westerbaan GPG 99BA289B | SINP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.w-nz.com/ - 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 FA

Conveying memory pressure to userspace?

2007-05-10 Thread Bas Westerbaan
. Bas -- Bas Westerbaan GPG 99BA289B | SINP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.w-nz.com/ - 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

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Bas Westerbaan
to decide whether to remove the option or not instead of now. -- Bas Westerbaan http://blog.w-nz.com/ GPG Public Keys: http://w-nz.com/keys/bas.westerbaan.asc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majo

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Bas Westerbaan
used on all configurations yet. Other situations may arise where 8K stacks may be preferred. It is too early to kill 8K stacks imho. -- Bas Westerbaan http://blog.w-nz.com/ GPG Public Keys: http://w-nz.com/keys/bas.westerbaan.asc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Bas Westerbaan
configurations yet. Other situations may arise where 8K stacks may be preferred. It is too early to kill 8K stacks imho. -- Bas Westerbaan http://blog.w-nz.com/ GPG Public Keys: http://w-nz.com/keys/bas.westerbaan.asc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Bas Westerbaan
or not instead of now. -- Bas Westerbaan http://blog.w-nz.com/ GPG Public Keys: http://w-nz.com/keys/bas.westerbaan.asc - 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