Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Improve slab consumption with memoryless nodes

2014-08-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:10:11 -0700 Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > I know kernel summit is going on, so I'll be patient, but was just > curious if anyone had any further comments other than Christoph's on the > naming. Nope. Please make a decision on the naming, refresh, retest and resend and I'l

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Improve slab consumption with memoryless nodes

2014-08-21 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 13.08.2014 [17:13:01 -0700], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > Anton noticed (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg67489.html) that > on ppc LPARs with memoryless nodes, a large amount of memory was > consumed by slabs and was marked unreclaimable. He tracked it down to > slab deactivations in th

[RFC PATCH 0/4] Improve slab consumption with memoryless nodes

2014-08-13 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
Anton noticed (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg67489.html) that on ppc LPARs with memoryless nodes, a large amount of memory was consumed by slabs and was marked unreclaimable. He tracked it down to slab deactivations in the SLUB core when we allocate remotely, leading to poor efficiency a