Re: [RFC 3/3] man-pages: Add man page for vmpressure_fd(2)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Nov 20 2012 - 00:52:05 EST


On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 03:01:52 -0800 Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Upon these notifications, userland programs can cooperate with
> the kernel, achieving better system's memory management.

Well I read through the whole thread and afaict the above is the only
attempt to describe why this patchset exists!

How about we step away from implementation details for a while and
discuss observed problems, use-cases, requirements and such? What are
we actually trying to achieve here?
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