Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:22:16 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm v2 1/3] slub: never fail to shrink cache |
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> Yeah, but the tool just writes 1 to /sys/kernel/slab/cache/shrink, i.e. > invokes shrink_store(), and I don't propose to remove slab placement > optimization from there. What I propose is to move slab placement > optimization from kmem_cache_shrink() to shrink_store(), because other > users of kmem_cache_shrink() don't seem to need it at all - they just > want to release empty slabs. Such a change wouldn't affect the behavior > of `slabinfo -s` at all.
Well we have to go through the chain of partial slabs anyways so its easy to do the optimization at that point.
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