[Devel] Re: [PATCH v3 05/16] consider a memcg parameter in kmem_create_cache

[Glauber Costa]

On 09/24/2012 07:38 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 09/24/2012 05:56 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
>>>
>>>> The reason I say it is orthogonal, is that people will still want to see
>>>> their caches in /proc/slabinfo, regardless of wherever else they'll be.
>>>> It was a requirement from Pekka in one of the first times I posted this,
>>>> IIRC.
>>>
>>> They want to see total counts there true. But as I said we already have a
>>> duplication of the statistics otherwise. We have never done the scheme
>>> that you propose. That is unexpected. I would not expect the numbers to be
>>> there.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Glauber Costa <glommer at parallels.com> wrote:
>> I myself personally believe it can potentially clutter slabinfo, and
>> won't put my energy in defending the current implementation. What I
>> don't want is to keep switching between implementations.
>>
>> Pekka, Tejun, what do you guys say here?
> 
> So Christoph is proposing that the new caches appear somewhere under
> the cgroups directory and /proc/slabinfo includes aggregated counts,
> right? I'm certainly OK with that.
> 
Just for clarification, I am not sure about the aggregate counts -
although it surely makes sense.

Christoph, is that what you're proposing ?