On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Greg Thelen wrote: > > You can already shrink the reclaimable slabs (dentries / inodes) via > > calls to the subsystem specific shrinkers. Did Ying Han do anything to > > go beyond that? > > cc: Ying > > The Google shrinker patches enhance prune_dcache_sb() to limit dentry > pressure to a specific memcg. Ok then its restricted to the reclaimable slab caches already. The main issue to sort out then is who is the "owner" of an inode/dentry (if something like that exists). If you separate the objects into different pages then the objects may be cleanly separated at the price of more memory use. -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>