On Fri, 11 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > On 05/11/2012 03:56 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Fri, 11 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > > > > > So we don't mix pages from multiple memcgs in the same cache - we believe > > > that > > > would be too confusing. > > > > Well subsystem create caches and other things that are shared between > > multiple processes. How can you track that? > > Each process that belongs to a memcg triggers the creation of a new child kmem > cache. I see that. But there are other subsystems from slab allocators that do the same. There are also objects that may be used by multiple processes. F.e what about shm? > > > /proc/slabinfo reflects this information, by listing the memcg-specific > > > slabs. > > > > What about /sys/kernel/slab/*? > > From the PoV of the global system, what you'll see is something like: > dentry , dentry(2:memcg1), dentry(2:memcg2), etc. Hmmm.. Would be better to have a hierachy there. /proc/slabinfo is more legacy. -- 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>