Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/7] UBC: kernel memory accounting (core)

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On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 17:27 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> > If I'm reading this patch right then seems like you are making page
> > allocations to fail w/o (for example) trying to purge some pages from
> > the page cache belonging to this container.  Or is that reclaim going to
> > come later?
> 
> charged kernel objects can't be _reclaimed_. how do you propose
> to reclaim tasks page tables or files or task struct or vma or etc.?


I agree that kernel objects cann't be reclaimed easily.  But what you
are proposing is also not right.  Returning failure w/o doing any
reclaim on pages (that are reclaimable) is not useful.  And this is why
I asked, is this change going to be part of next set of patches (as
current set of patches are only tracking kernel usage).

-rohit

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