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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] Module for tracking/accounting shared memory buffers
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:15:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57FE6FC6.70205@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476229810-26570-1-git-send-email-kandoiruchi@google.com>

On 10/11/2016 04:50 PM, Ruchi Kandoi wrote:
> Any process holding a reference to these buffers will keep the kernel from
> reclaiming its backing pages.  mm counters don't provide a complete picture of
> these allocations, since they only account for pages that are mapped into a
> process's address space.  This problem is especially bad for systems like
> Android that use dma-buf fds to share graphics and multimedia buffers between
> processes: these allocations are often large, have complex sharing patterns,
> and are rarely mapped into every process that holds a reference to them.

What do you end up _doing_ with all this new information that you have
here?  You know which processes have "pinned" these shared buffers, and
exported that information in /proc.  But, then what?

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-12 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-11 23:50 Ruchi Kandoi
2016-10-11 23:50 ` [RFC 1/6] fs: add installed and uninstalled file_operations Ruchi Kandoi
2016-10-11 23:50 ` [RFC 2/6] drivers: misc: add memtrack Ruchi Kandoi
2016-10-11 23:50 ` [RFC 3/6] dma-buf: add memtrack support Ruchi Kandoi
2016-10-11 23:50 ` [RFC 4/6] memtrack: Adds the accounting to keep track of all mmaped/unmapped pages Ruchi Kandoi
2016-10-11 23:50 ` [RFC 5/6] memtrack: Add memtrack accounting for forked processes Ruchi Kandoi
2016-10-11 23:50 ` [RFC 6/6] drivers: staging: ion: add ION_IOC_TAG ioctl Ruchi Kandoi
2016-10-12  3:29   ` Hillf Danton
2016-10-12  0:26 ` [RFC 0/6] Module for tracking/accounting shared memory buffers Al Viro
2016-10-12  1:14 ` Rob Clark
2016-10-12  9:09 ` Christian König
2016-10-12 17:15 ` Dave Hansen [this message]

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