On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:27:58 -0700 j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > I agree with that. I'm wondering if, rather than making the > SRCU-ification optional, shrinkers themselves could just be optional. > Unless I'm badly misunderstanding what shrinkers do, they seem like a > perfect example of something that could be omitted with little to no > impact. (Stub them out, make them never called, and if you run out of > memory just be unhappy. Ditto for the oom-killer, which really ought to > be optional.)
The shrinkers do important stuff ;) "find /" will consume large amounts of memory for inode and dentry caches. The shrinkers are how we free that up again. -- 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/
