Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] slightly change shrinker behaviour for very small object sets

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On 12/21/2012 02:46 AM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * v2: fix sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure for all users.
> 
> I've recently noticed some glitches in the object shrinker mechanism when a
> very small number of objects is used. Those situations are theoretically
> possible, albeit unlikely. But although it may feel like it is purely
> theoretical, they can become common in environments with many small containers
> (cgroups) in a box.
> 
> Those patches came from some experimentation I am doing with targetted-shrinking
> for kmem-limited memory cgroups (Dave Shrinnker is already aware of such work).
> In such scenarios, one can set the available memory to very low limits, and it
> becomes easy to see this.
> 
> 
Hi,

Who should pick this one up?

Are there any comments aside from Dave's Reviewed-by tag that I wrongly
transcribed?

Thanks!

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