Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:46:02 +0400 | From | Glauber Costa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure |
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On 09/30/2012 02:37 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, James. > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 09:56:28AM +0100, James Bottomley wrote: >> The beancounter approach originally used by OpenVZ does exactly this. >> There are two specific problems, though, firstly you can't count >> references in generic code, so now you have to extend the cgroup >> tentacles into every object, an invasiveness which people didn't really >> like. > > Yeah, it will need some hooks. For dentry and inode, I think it would > be pretty well isolated tho. Wasn't it? >
We would still need something for the stack. For open files, and for everything that becomes a potential problem. We then end up with 35 different knobs instead of one. One of the perceived advantages of this approach, is that it condenses as much data as a single knob as possible, reducing complexity and over flexibility.
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