[Devel] Re: [PATCH v3 13/28] slub: create duplicate cache

Christoph Lameter cl at linux.com
Tue May 29 10:25:12 PDT 2012


On Tue, 29 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:

> I will try to at least have the page accounting done in a consistent way. How
> about that?

Ok. What do you mean by "consistent"? Since objects and pages can be used
in a shared way and since accounting in many areas of the kernel is
intentional fuzzy to avoid performance issues there is not that much of a
requirement for accuracy. We have problems even just defining what the
exact set of pages belonging to a task/process is.




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