On 09/24/2012 05:42 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> But that is orthogonal, isn't it? People will still expect to see it in >> the old slabinfo file. > > The current scheme for memory statistics is > > /proc/meminfo contains global counters > > /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/meminfo > > contains node specific counters. > > The cgroups directory already contains various files. Adding a slabinfo > file would make sense and it could be found easily. > > The sysfs hierachy /sys/kernel/slab could also show up there as a "slab" > directory under which all the details of the various caches would be > available and tunable. Very much in sync with the way the cgroups > directories operate. > The reason I say it is orthogonal, is that people will still want to see their caches in /proc/slabinfo, regardless of wherever else they'll be. It was a requirement from Pekka in one of the first times I posted this, IIRC. -- 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
