Messages in this thread | | | From | Ed Tomlinson <> | Subject | Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1 | Date | Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:03:07 -0500 |
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On February 21, 2004 10:28 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > > > Maybe gradual page-cache pressure could shirnk the slab? > > > What happened to the experiment of having slab pages on the (in)active > lists and letting them be free'd that way? Didn't somebody already do > that? Ed Tomlinson and Craig Kulesa?
You have a good memory.
We dropped this experiment since there was a lot of latency between the time a slab page became freeable and when it was actually freed. The current call back scheme was designed to balance slab preasure and vmscaning.
Ed Tomlinson
> That's still something I'd like to try, although that's obviously 2.7.x > material, so not useful for rigth now. > > Or did the experiment just never work out well? > > Linus > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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