[Devel] Re: - merge-sys_clone-sys_unshare-nsproxy-and-namespace.patch removed from -mm tree

[Cedric Le Goater]

Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:02:19PM +0200, Cedric Le Goater wrote:
>>> on Linux-VServer,we have accounting for those
>>> proxies (and several other namespace related stuff)
>>> because we already suspected leakage and reference
>>> bugs in this area some time ago ... btw, I also
>>> suggested to put a similar functionality in mainline
>>> for the time being, but it was ignored, as usual ...
>> something like a kmem_cache ? 
> 
> maybe, but even simplest accounting of the
> different 'objects' would be more then enough
> for the test phase (or maybe as statistics :)

Sure but Linux-VServer would certainly beneficiate from a nsproxy 
cache. Some scenarii do a lot of unshare(), nop ?

Anyway, i wouldn't know how to measure the difference :) but 
it certainly helped me to identify the leak real fast !

>> and we are not ignoring vserver ! :)
> 
> good for them, our project is called Linux-VServer :)

arg :) 

Cheers,

C.
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