[Devel] Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH 5/7] UBC: kernel memory accounting (core)

Dave Hansen haveblue at us.ibm.com
Thu Aug 17 07:38:13 PDT 2006


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




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