Messages in this thread | | | From | Greg Thelen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] kmem accounting basic infrastructure | Date | Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:19:58 -0700 |
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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.
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