On Sat, 31 May 2014, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > > Well slub returns an error code if it fails > > ... to sort slabs by the nubmer of objects in use, which is not even > implied by the function declaration. Why can *shrinking*, which is what > kmem_cache_shrink must do at first place, ever fail?
Because there is a memory allocation failure. Or there may be other processes going on that prevent shrinking. F.e. We may want to merge a patchset that does defragmentation of slabs at some point. -- 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/
