On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 17:35 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > > My preference would be to have container (I keep on saying container, > > but resource beancounter) pointer embeded in task, mm(not sure), > > address_space and anon_vma structures. This should allow us to track > > user land pages optimally. But for tracking kernel usage on behalf of > > user, we will have to use an additional field (unless we can re-use > > mapping). Please correct me if I'm wrong, though all the kernel > > resources will be allocated/freed in context of a user process. And at > > that time we know if a allocation should succeed or not. So we may > > actually not need to track kernel pages that closely. We are not going > > to run reclaim on any of them anyways. > objects are really allocated in process context > (except for TCP/IP and other softirqs which are done in arbitrary > process context!)
Can these pages be tagged using mapping field of the page struct. > And objects are not always freed in correct context (!). > You mean beyond Networking and softirq. > Note, page_ub is not for _user_ pages. user pages accounting will be added > in next patch set. page_ub is added to track kernel allocations. > But will the page_ub be used for some purpose for user land pages? -rohit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech
