Hello, Glauber. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Glauber Costa <glom...@parallels.com> wrote: > This was discussed multiple times. Our interest is to preserve existing > deployed setup, that were tuned in a world where kmem didn't exist. > Because we also feed kmem to the user counter, this may very well > disrupt their setup.
So, that can be served by .kmem_accounted at root, no? > User memory, unlike kernel memory, may very well be totally in control > of the userspace application, so it is not unreasonable to believe that > extra pages appearing in a new kernel version may break them. > > It is actually a much worse compatibility problem than flipping > hierarchy, in comparison Again, what's wrong with one switch at the root? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/
