Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754765Ab2HOO5c (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:57:32 -0400 Received: from a194-183.smtp-out.amazonses.com ([199.255.194.183]:52721 "EHLO a194-183.smtp-out.amazonses.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753251Ab2HOO5b (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:57:31 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 572 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:57:30 EDT Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:47:57 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Michal Hocko cc: Glauber Costa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org, Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, David Rientjes , Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] kmem accounting basic infrastructure In-Reply-To: <20120815123931.GF23985@dhcp22.suse.cz> Message-ID: <000001392ac15404-43a3fd2c-a6d3-4985-b173-74bb586ad47c-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <1344517279-30646-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1344517279-30646-5-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <20120814162144.GC6905@dhcp22.suse.cz> <502B6D03.1080804@parallels.com> <20120815123931.GF23985@dhcp22.suse.cz> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SES-Outgoing: 199.255.194.183 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 18 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/