Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:51:39 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: I think I have a memory leak in 2.3.x |
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On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 03:15:42PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > since i don't have the history that you and others here might have, can > > you tell me why the inode cache is implemented so that it uses raw pages > > and never shrinks? is it simply older than the slab cache > > implementation? > > The original inode cache is ancient. The slab only arrived in 2.1. The > inode.c was pretty much rewritten in 2.1 too, but the underlying data > structures predate slab by a long, long way.
I was under the impression that the slab allocator was used for inodes around 2.1.4x, but Linus switched back for reasons which seemed good when I heard them, but which I no longer remember :)
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