Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm: introduce process_mrelease system call

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 1:53 AM Michal Hocko [off-list ref] wrote:

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However
retrying means issuing another syscall, so additional overhead...
I guess such "best effort" approach would be unusual for a syscall, so
maybe we can keep it as it is now and if such "do not block" mode is needed
we can use flags to implement it later?

Yeah, an explicit opt-in via flags would be an option if that turns out
to be really necessary.

I am fine with keeping it as it is but we do need the non-blocking
option (via flags) to enable userspace to act more aggressively.