On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > > This is the same btw in SLAB which keeps objects in per cpu caches and > > keeps empty slab pages on special queues. > > > >> This patch marks all memcg caches as dead. kmem_cache_shrink is called > >> for the ones who are not yet dead - this will force internal cache > >> reorganization, and then all references to empty pages will be removed. > > > > You need to call this also for slab to drain the caches and free the pages > > on the empty list. > > > Doesn't the SLAB have a time-based reaper for that?
Yes but it will take a couple of minutes to drain the caches. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
