Re: [RFC v2 0/3] idle memory tracking

2015-04-07 Thread Vladimir Davydov
Forgot to mention: Originally, the patch for tracking idle memory was proposed back in 2011 by Michel Lespinasse (see http://lwn.net/Articles/459269/). The main difference between Michel's patch and this one is that Michel implemented a kernel space daemon for estimating idle memory size per cgrou

[RFC v2 0/3] idle memory tracking

2015-04-07 Thread Vladimir Davydov
Hi, This patch set introduces a new user API for tracking user memory pages that have not been used for a given period of time. The purpose of this is to provide the userspace with the means of tracking a workload's working set, i.e. the set of pages that are actively used by the workload. Knowing