On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:28:12PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov kirill@shutemov.name wrote:
While the new API is very simple, it is still extensible (i.e. versioned).
Sorry, I didn't follow previous discussion on this, but could you explain what's wrong with memory notifications from memcg? As I can see you can get pretty similar functionality using memory thresholds on the root cgroup. What's the point?
Why should you be required to use cgroups to get VM pressure events to userspace?
Valid point. But in fact you have it on most systems anyway.
I personally don't like to have a syscall per small feature. Isn't it better to have a file-based interface which can be used with normal file syscalls: open()/read()/poll()?