Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:26:57 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm 2/3] slab: zap kmem_cache_shrink return value |
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> __cache_shrink() is used not only in __kmem_cache_shrink(), but also in > SLAB's __kmem_cache_shutdown(), where we do need its return value to > check if the cache is empty.
It could be useful to know if a slab is empty. So maybe leave kmem_cache_shrink the way it is and instead fix up slub to return the proper value?
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