Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] mm: introduce external memory hinting API

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Jan 23 2020 - 04:13:45 EST


On Wed 22-01-20 17:41:31, Minchan Kim wrote:
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> What do you want to see further?

Either a consensus that it is sufficient to have an inherently racy
interface that requires some form of external sychronization or
a robust interface that can cope with races in a sensible way.
And no, having a flag for future extension is definitely not the
way how a new API should be added. Seriously!

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs