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From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	rohitseth@google.com, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	devel@openvz.org, CKRM-Tech <ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [patch02/05]: Containers(V2)- Generic Linux kernel changes
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:33:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158802412.6536.127.camel@linuxchandra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609201721360.2336@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 17:23 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > There are lots of different cases. At least for anonymous memory 
> > ->mapping should be free. Perhaps that could be used for anonymous
> > memory and a separate data structure for the important others.
> 
> mapping is used for swap and to point to the anon vma.
> 
> > slab should have at least one field free too, although it might be a different
> > one (iirc Christoph's rewrite uses more than the current slab, but it would
> > surprise me if he needed all) 
> 
> slab currently has lots of fields free but my rewrite uses all of them.
> And AFAICT this patchset does not track slab pages.
> 
> Hmm.... Build a radix tree with pointers to the pages?

Yes, that would be a way to isolate the overhead.

-- 

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    Chandra Seetharaman               | Be careful what you choose....
              - sekharan@us.ibm.com   |      .......you may get it.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-21  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-20  2:18 [patch02/05]: Containers(V2)- Generic Linux kernel changes Rohit Seth
2006-09-20 11:27 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-20 16:44   ` Rohit Seth
2006-09-20 18:14     ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-20 18:19       ` Rohit Seth
2006-09-20 18:32         ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-21  0:23       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-21  0:37         ` Rohit Seth
2006-09-21  0:41           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-21  0:53             ` Rohit Seth
2006-09-21  1:33         ` Chandra Seetharaman [this message]
2006-09-21 22:29           ` [ckrm-tech] " Rohit Seth

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