Re: [PATCH v3 00/32] memcg-aware slab shrinking with lasers and numbers

Andrew Morton
2013-04-08T20:51:28Z

On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:00:27 +0400 Glauber Costa <glommer-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Cc: Dave Shrinnker <david-FqsqvQoI3Ljby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org>

I keep on receiving emails from people who claim they can fix this.

> This patchset implements targeted shrinking for memcg when kmem limits are
> present. So far, we've been accounting kernel objects but failing allocations
> when short of memory. This is because our only option would be to call the
> global shrinker, depleting objects from all caches and breaking isolation.

This is a fine-looking patchset and it even has some acks and reviews.
But it's huuuuge and we're at -rc6 and I've been offline for a week and
have 975 emails in my to-apply folder.

So, err, I think I'll bestow upon everyone some additional time to
review the code ;) Please resend for -rc1?