From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932540AbWHQOjq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:39:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932537AbWHQOjq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:39:46 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:26789 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932538AbWHQOjo (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:39:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH 5/7] UBC: kernel memory accounting (core) From: Dave Hansen To: Kirill Korotaev Cc: rohitseth@google.com, Rik van Riel , ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andi Kleen , Christoph Hellwig , Andrey Savochkin , devel@openvz.org, hugh@veritas.com, Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Pavel Emelianov In-Reply-To: <44E46ED3.7000201@sw.ru> References: <44E33893.6020700@sw.ru> <44E33C8A.6030705@sw.ru> <1155752693.22595.76.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> <44E46ED3.7000201@sw.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:38:13 -0700 Message-Id: <1155825493.9274.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 17:27 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > charged kernel objects can't be _reclaimed_. how do you propose > to reclaim tasks page tables or files or task struct or vma or etc.? Do you have any statistics on which of these objects are the most troublesome? If it _is_ pagetables, for instance, it is quite conceivable that we could reclaim them. This one probably deserves a big, fat comment, though. ;) -- Dave