Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > >> As I have already told kmalloc caches cannot be accounted easily >> so turning the accounting on for them will fail with -EINVAL. >> Turning the accounting off is possible only if the cache has >> no objects. This is done so because turning accounting off >> implies unaccounting of all the objects in the cache, but due >> to full-pages in slub are not stored in any lists (usually) >> this is impossible to do so, however I'm open for discussion >> of how to make this work. > > Where can I find more information why is would not be possible to > account kmalloc caches? > Hi, Christoph, I've wondered the same thing and asked the question. Pavel wrote back to me saying "The pages that are full of objects are not linked in any list in kmem_cache so we just cannot find them." I suspect that SLUB changes this, but I need to look at the allocator more carefully. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers