linux-kernel - Re: memory resource accounting (was Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with Resource Management

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Date:	Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:57:00 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...igh.org>, rohitseth@...gle.com,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>, vatsa@...ibm.com,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, mingo@...e.hu, sam@...ain.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvz.org, efault@....de,
	balbir@...ibm.com, sekharan@...ibm.com, nagar@...son.ibm.com,
	pj@....com, Andrey Savochkin <saw@...ru>
Subject: Re: memory resource accounting (was Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going
	forward with Resource Management - A	cpu controller)

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 00:19 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>    This does give you kernel (slab, pagetable, etc) allocations as well as
>    userspace. I don't like the idea of doing controllers for inode cache
>    and controllers for dentry cache, etc, etc, ad infinitum.

Those two might not be such a bad idea.  Of the slab in my system, 90%
is reliably from those two slabs alone.  Now, a controller for the
'Acpi-Operand' slab might be going too far. ;)

Certainly something we should at least consider down the road.

-- Dave

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