On 23/06/2016 18:19, Peter Lieven wrote: > Mhh, so your idea could be right. But what to do now? The introduction > of RCU obviously increases the short term RSS usage. But thats never > corrected as it seems. > > I see this behaviour with kernel 3.19 and kernel 4.4
If it's 10M nothing. If there is a 100M regression that is also caused by RCU, we have to give up on it for that data structure, or mmap/munmap the affected data structures. Paolo