Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 13:56:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/29] slub: always get the cache from its page in
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On Fri, 11 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:

> So we don't mix pages from multiple memcgs in the same cache - we believe that
> would be too confusing.

Well subsystem create caches and other things that are shared between
multiple processes. How can you track that?

> /proc/slabinfo reflects this information, by listing the memcg-specific slabs.

What about /sys/kernel/slab/*?


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