On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > No slab operations may be performed in get_reference(). Interrupts > > s/get_reference/get/, yes?
Correct. > (What's the smallest sized object slub will create? 4 bytes?) __alignof__(unsigned long long) > To hold off a concurrent free while defragging, the code relies upon > slab_lock() on the current page, yes? Right. > But slab_lock() isn't taken for slabs whose objects are larger than > PAGE_SIZE. How's that handled? slab lock is always taken. How did you get that idea? > Overall: looks good. It'd be nice to get a buffer_head shrinker in place, > see how that goes from a proof-of-concept POV. Ok. > How much testing has been done on this code, and of what form, and with > what results? I posted them in the intro of the last full post and then Michael Piotrowski did some stress tests. See http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118125373320855&w=2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
