Re: [PATCH 5/8] mm: move lazily freed pages to inactive list

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Nov 04 2015 - 03:15:23 EST


On Tue 03-11-15 09:52:23, Minchan Kim wrote:
[...]
> I believe adding new LRU list would be controversial(ie, not trivial)
> for maintainer POV even though code wouldn't be complicated.
> So, I want to see problems in *real practice*, not any theoritical
> test program before diving into that.
> To see such voice of request, we should release the syscall.
> So, I want to push this first.

Completely agreed. The functionality is useful already and a new LRU
list is not justified yet.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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