Re: [RFC 1/3] /dev/low_mem_notify

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Tue Jan 24 2012 - 10:53:10 EST


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:51:13PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ok, so here's a proof of concept patch that implements sample-base
> per-process free threshold VM event watching using perf-like syscall
> ABI. I'd really like to see something like this that's much more
> extensible and clean than the /dev based ABIs that people have
> proposed so far.
>
> Pekka

What is the practical advantage of a syscall, again?

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