linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add file RSS accounting to the memory resource controller

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Message-Id: <20090415131348.AC43.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:14:37 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add file RSS accounting to the memory resource controller

Hi

> We currently don't track file RSS, the RSS we report is actually anon RSS.
> All the file mapped pages, come in through the page cache and get accounted
> there. This patch adds support for accounting file RSS pages. It should
> 
> 1. Help improve the metrics reported by the memory resource controller
> 2. Will form the basis for a future shared memory accounting heuristic
>    that has been proposed by Kamezawa.

It seems impressive feature although I haven't review it.
I'll review this later.

thanks.


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