On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > __cache_shrink() is used not only in __kmem_cache_shrink(), but also in > SLAB's __kmem_cache_shutdown(), where we do need its return value to > check if the cache is empty.
It could be useful to know if a slab is empty. So maybe leave kmem_cache_shrink the way it is and instead fix up slub to return the proper value? -- 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/
