On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > Yeah, but the tool just writes 1 to /sys/kernel/slab/cache/shrink, i.e. > invokes shrink_store(), and I don't propose to remove slab placement > optimization from there. What I propose is to move slab placement > optimization from kmem_cache_shrink() to shrink_store(), because other > users of kmem_cache_shrink() don't seem to need it at all - they just > want to release empty slabs. Such a change wouldn't affect the behavior > of `slabinfo -s` at all.
Well we have to go through the chain of partial slabs anyways so its easy to do the optimization at that 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/
