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Re: [RFC PATCH 00/30] Code tagging framework and applications
- To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
- From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 09:00:17 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 11:19:48AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> It's also unclear *who* would enable this. It looks like it would mostly
> have value during the development stage of an embedded platform to track
> kernel memory usage on a per-application basis in an environment where it
> may be difficult to setup tracing and tracking. Would it ever be enabled
> in production?
Afaict this is developer only; it is all unconditional code.
> Would a distribution ever enable this?
I would sincerely hope not. Because:
> If it's enabled, any overhead cannot be disabled/enabled at run or
> boot time so anyone enabling this would carry the cost without never
> necessarily consuming the data.
this.
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