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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/11] mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag
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	(David Rientjes's message of "Tue, 4 Mar 2014 19:59:16 -0800 (PST)")
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>, Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org

David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> writes:
>
> Per-process flags are a scarce resource so we should free them up
> whenever possible and make them available.  We'll be using it shortly for
> memcg oom reserves.

I'm not convinced TCP_RR is a meaningfull benchmark for slab.

The shortness seems like an artificial problem.

Just add another flag word to the task_struct? That would seem 
to be the obvious way. People will need it sooner or later anyways.

-Andi

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