[PATCH v3 00/32] memcg-aware slab shrinking with lasers and numbers

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Mon Apr 8 20:51:28 UTC 2013


On Mon,  8 Apr 2013 18:00:27 +0400 Glauber Costa <glommer at parallels.com> wrote:

> Cc: Dave Shrinnker <david at fromorbit.com>

I keep on receiving emails from people who claim they can fix this.

> This patchset implements targeted shrinking for memcg when kmem limits are
> present. So far, we've been accounting kernel objects but failing allocations
> when short of memory. This is because our only option would be to call the
> global shrinker, depleting objects from all caches and breaking isolation.

This is a fine-looking patchset and it even has some acks and reviews. 
But it's huuuuge and we're at -rc6 and I've been offline for a week and
have 975 emails in my to-apply folder.

So, err, I think I'll bestow upon everyone some additional time to
review the code ;)  Please resend for -rc1?



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