On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:04:06PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > 2. a list of files that contain shadow entries is maintained. If the > global number of shadows exceeds a certain threshold, a shrinker is > activated that reclaims old entries from the mappings. This is > heavy-handed but it should not be a common case and is only there > to protect from accidentally/maliciously induced OOM kills. Grrr.. another global files list. We've been trying rather hard to get rid of the first one :/ I see why you want it but ugh. I have similar worries for your global time counter, large machines might thrash on that one cacheline. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
