On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 01:31:44PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Andi, > > On Feb 8, 2008 1:55 PM, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Impressive patch! On the other hand a lot of the interesting > > data isn't it kmalloc anymore, but in slab. Does it really track > > all that much? > > It tracks all slab caches. What we're not tracking is pages from the
I see. > page allocator that are directly used by callers. We had some > discussion of this already and we definitely want to extend it to > cover that too later on. It's probably tricky; there are all kinds of hidden page faults on x86 on data structures allocated as pages (e.g. GDT, LDT [which is sometimes kmalloc too], stack etc.) -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
