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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 04/11] kmem accounting basic infrastructure
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Michal Hocko wrote:

> > That is not what the kernel does, in general. We assume that if he wants
> > that memory and we can serve it, we should. Also, not all kernel memory
> > is unreclaimable. We can shrink the slabs, for instance. Ying Han
> > claims she has patches for that already...
>
> Are those patches somewhere around?

You can already shrink the reclaimable slabs (dentries / inodes) via
calls to the subsystem specific shrinkers. Did Ying Han do anything to
go beyond that?



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