On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the context of tracking kernel memory objects to a cgroup, the > following problem appears: we may need to destroy a cgroup, but > this does not guarantee that all objects inside the cache are dead. > This can't be guaranteed even if we shrink the cache beforehand. > > The simple option is to simply leave the cache around. However, > intensive workloads may have generated a lot of objects and thus > the dead cache will live in memory for a long while. Why is this a problem? Leaving the cache around while there are still active objects in it would certainly be a lot simpler to understand and implement. -- Suleiman -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>