On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 11:15:54PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Memory cgroups used to have 5 per-page pointers. To allow users to > disable that amount of overhead during runtime, those pointers were > allocated in a separate array, with a translation layer between them > and struct page. > > There is now only one page pointer remaining: the memcg pointer, that > indicates which cgroup the page is associated with when charged. The > complexity of runtime allocation and the runtime translation overhead > is no longer justified to save that *potential* 0.19% of memory.
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