On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Greg Thelen wrote: > > 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? > > cc: Ying > > The Google shrinker patches enhance prune_dcache_sb() to limit dentry > pressure to a specific memcg. Ok then its restricted to the reclaimable slab caches already. The main issue to sort out then is who is the "owner" of an inode/dentry (if something like that exists). If you separate the objects into different pages then the objects may be cleanly separated at the price of more memory use. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html