From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: How to get a sense of VM pressure
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:10:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488D7EF9.2020500@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807261425.26318.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> A good start would be to register a "shrinker" (look at dcache or inode
> cache for examples). Start off by allocating pages, and slow down or
> stop or even release some of the pages back as you start getting feedback
> back through your shrinker callback.
>
> Not perfect, but it should prevent livelocks.
>
Thanks, that's a good starting place.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-25 17:55 How to get a sense of VM pressure Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-26 4:25 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-27 3:14 ` Dave Hansen
2008-07-28 8:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-07-27 6:43 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-28 7:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-28 8:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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