Re: [patch 03/11] mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag

Andi Kleen
2014-03-07T17:20:39Z

David Rientjes <rientjes-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> Per-process flags are a scarce resource so we should free them up
> whenever possible and make them available. We'll be using it shortly for
> memcg oom reserves.

I'm not convinced TCP_RR is a meaningfull benchmark for slab.

The shortness seems like an artificial problem.

Just add another flag word to the task_struct? That would seem
to be the obvious way. People will need it sooner or later anyways.

-Andi

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