On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Michal Hocko wrote: > > That is not what the kernel does, in general. We assume that if he wants > > that memory and we can serve it, we should. Also, not all kernel memory > > is unreclaimable. We can shrink the slabs, for instance. Ying Han > > claims she has patches for that already... > > Are those patches somewhere around?
You can already shrink the reclaimable slabs (dentries / inodes) via calls to the subsystem specific shrinkers. Did Ying Han do anything to go beyond that? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/