From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
To: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom: add sysctl to enable slab memory dump
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:03:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1330013036.13624.78.camel@jaguar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120223152226.GA2014@x61.redhat.com>
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 13:22 -0200, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> > I think this also gives another usecase for a possible /dev/mem_notify in
> > the future: userspace could easily poll on an eventfd and wait for an oom
> > to occur and then cat /proc/slabinfo to attain all this. In other words,
> > if we had this functionality (which I think we undoubtedly will in the
> > future), this patch would be obsoleted.
>
> Great! So, why not letting the time tell us if this feature will be obsoleted
> or not? I'd rather have this patch obsoleted by another one proven better, than
> just stay still waiting for something that might, or might not, happen in the
> future.
Sure.
I'm not really convinced such an ABI would be a full replacement for
this patch. There's certainly advantages to having all this visible in
syslog even if we'd have such a mechanism.
Pekka
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-22 11:53 [PATCH] oom: add sysctl to enable slab memory dump Rafael Aquini
2012-02-22 13:17 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-22 16:04 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-02-22 13:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-22 16:14 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-02-22 16:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-23 0:44 ` David Rientjes
2012-02-23 15:02 ` Josef Bacik
2012-02-23 23:09 ` David Rientjes
2012-02-24 15:10 ` Josef Bacik
2012-02-24 21:45 ` David Rientjes
2012-02-24 21:52 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-24 23:51 ` David Rientjes
2012-02-23 15:22 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-02-23 16:03 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2012-02-23 23:17 ` David Rientjes
2012-02-24 6:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-24 10:03 ` David Rientjes
2012-02-24 10:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-24 10:38 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-02-29 3:39 ` Rafael Aquini
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