On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > > Where can I find more information why is would not be possible to > > account kmalloc caches? > > It is possible, but the problem is that we want to account only > allocations explicitly caused by the user request. E.g. the > vfsmount name is kmalloc-ed by explicit user request, but such > things as buffer heads are not. > > So we have to explicitly specify which calls to kmalloc() do we > wand to be accounted and which we do not by passing additional > flag (GFP_ACCT?) to kmalloc, but this is another patch. > > Yet again - as soon as we agree on the implementation of kmem > caches accounting, I will proceed with working on kmalloc, vmalloc > and buddy allocator. Oh gosh..... Lots of complications in the allocator paths. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
