Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:14:03 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] BC: resource beancounters (v2) |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:49:15 +0400 > Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> wrote: > > >>>We need to go over this work before we can commit to the BC >>>core. Last time I looked at the VM accounting patch it >>>seemed rather unpleasing from a maintainability POV. >> >>hmmm... in which regard? > > > Little changes all over the MM code which might get accidentally broken.
I still think doing simple accounting per-page would be a better way to go than trying to pin down all "user allocatable" kernel allocations. And would require all of about 2 hooks in the page allocator. And would track *actual* RAM allocated by that container.
Can we continue that discussion (ie. why it isn't good enough). Last I was told it is not perfect and can be unfair... sounds like it fits the semantics perfectly ;)
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