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

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed Jan 18 2012 - 10:29:32 EST


On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That seems like a horrible idea, because there is no guarantee that
> the kernel will continue to use NR_ACTIVE_ANON and NR_ACTIVE_FILE
> internally in the future.
>
> What is exported to userspace must be somewhat independent of the
> specifics of how the kernel implements things internally.

Exactly, that's what I'm also interested in.

Pekka
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