Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:47:57 +0000 | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] kmem accounting basic infrastructure |
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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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