On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > On page allocations, SLAB and SLUB modify zone page state counters > NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE or NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE. > This allows to obtain slab usage information at /proc/meminfo. > > Without this patch, /proc/meminfo will show zero Slab usage for SLOB. > > Since SLOB discards SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT flag, we always use > NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE zone state item.
Hmmm... that is unfortunate. The NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE stat is used by reclaim to make decisions on when to reclaim inodes and dentries. Could you fix that to properly account the reclaimable/unreclaimable pages? -- 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/
