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Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure [message #48064 is a reply to message #48062] Wed, 26 September 2012 17:53 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Glauber Costa is currently offline  Glauber Costa
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On 09/26/2012 09:44 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Glauber.
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> wrote:
>> This was discussed multiple times. Our interest is to preserve existing
>> deployed setup, that were tuned in a world where kmem didn't exist.
>> Because we also feed kmem to the user counter, this may very well
>> disrupt their setup.
>
> So, that can be served by .kmem_accounted at root, no?
>
>> User memory, unlike kernel memory, may very well be totally in control
>> of the userspace application, so it is not unreasonable to believe that
>> extra pages appearing in a new kernel version may break them.
>>
>> It is actually a much worse compatibility problem than flipping
>> hierarchy, in comparison
>
> Again, what's wrong with one switch at the root?
>

I understand your trauma about over flexibility, and you know I share of
it. But I don't think there is any need to cap it here. Given kmem
accounted is perfectly hierarchical, and there seem to be plenty of
people who only care about user memory, I see no reason to disallow a
mixed use case here.

I must say that for my particular use case, enabling it unconditionally
would just work, so it is not that what I have in mind.
 
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