2015-01-27 17:23 GMT+09:00 Vladimir Davydov <vdavy...@parallels.com>:
> Hi Joonsoo,
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 05:00:09PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 03:55:29PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
>> > @@ -3381,6 +3390,15 @@ void __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *s)
>> > kmalloc(sizeof(struct list_head) * objects, GFP_KERNEL);
>> > unsigned long flags;
>> >
>> > + if (deactivate) {
>> > + /*
>> > + * Disable empty slabs caching. Used to avoid pinning offline
>> > + * memory cgroups by freeable kmem pages.
>> > + */
>> > + s->cpu_partial = 0;
>> > + s->min_partial = 0;
>> > + }
>> > +
>>
>> Maybe, kick_all_cpus_sync() is needed here since object would
>> be freed asynchronously so they can't see this updated value.
>
> I thought flush_all() should do the trick, no?
Unfortunately, it doesn't.
flush_all() sends IPI to not all cpus. It only sends IPI to cpus where
some conditions
are met and freeing could occur on the other ones.
Thanks.
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