[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Kernel memory accounting container (v2)

[Pavel Emelyanov]

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> 
>> This is based on the SLUB allocator, Paul's containers and the
>> resource counters I made for RSS controller and which are in
>> -mm tree already.
>>
>> To play with it, one need to mount the container file system
>> with -o kmem and then mark some caches as accountable via
>> /sys/slab/<cache_name>/cache_account.
> 
> Hmmmm... Okay I have seen multiple people who want to control slab 
> allocations and track memory for various reasons. Would it be possible to 
> come up with some hook that would allow a subscription to certain SLUB 
> events? That way multiple subsystems may track and maybe disallow certain
> allocations in various contexts.

Do you mean some more generic than just explicit call from slab_alloc, etc?
Ok, I will work on it.

Thanks,
Pavel