[Devel] Re: [patch00/05]: Containers(V2)- Introduction

Nick Piggin nickpiggin at yahoo.com.au
Wed Sep 20 10:19:44 PDT 2006


Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> 
>>If it wasn't clear was talking specifically about the hooks for page
>>tracking rather than the whole patchset. If anybody wants such page
>>tracking infrastructure in the kernel, then this (as opposed to the
>>huge beancounters stuff) is what it should look like.
> 
> 
> Could you point to the patch and a description for what is meant here by 
> page tracking (did not see that in the patch, maybe I could not find it)? 
> If these are just statistics then we likely already have 
> them.
> 

Patch 2/5 in this series provides hooks, and they are pretty unintrusive.

  mm/filemap.c              |    4 ++++
  mm/page_alloc.c           |    3 +++
  mm/rmap.c                 |    8 +++++++-
  mm/swap.c                 |    1 +
  mm/vmscan.c               |    1 +

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