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, 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>