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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:19:58 -0700 From: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com> To: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, yinghan@...gle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] kmem accounting basic infrastructure On Wed, Aug 15 2012, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Michal Hocko wrote: > >> > That is not what the kernel does, in general. We assume that if he wants >> > that memory and we can serve it, we should. Also, not all kernel memory >> > is unreclaimable. We can shrink the slabs, for instance. Ying Han >> > claims she has patches for that already... >> >> Are those patches somewhere around? > > You can already shrink the reclaimable slabs (dentries / inodes) via > calls to the subsystem specific shrinkers. Did Ying Han do anything to > go beyond that? cc: Ying The Google shrinker patches enhance prune_dcache_sb() to limit dentry pressure to a specific memcg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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