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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 21/21] slab defrag: Obsolete SLAB
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 14:49:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210794563.4093.57.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805141220440.16223@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>


On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 12:21 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2008, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> > > Interrupt exit in general would have to inspect the per cpu structures of 
> > > all slab caches on the system?
> > 
> > Why's that? When we're not under pressure (fast path), we can delay (and
> > batch) remote frees. When we are under pressure (slow path), we can do
> > everything immediately.
> 
> Fastpath is what? I guess slow path means we called into the page 
> allocator?

No, slow path here means we're already under memory pressure, so we
don't care if something takes longer if it saves memory.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-14 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-10  3:08 [patch 00/21] Slab Fragmentation Reduction V12 Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 01/21] slub: Add defrag_ratio field and sysfs support Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 02/21] slub: Replace ctor field with ops field in /sys/slab/* Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 03/21] slub: Add get() and kick() methods Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 04/21] slub: Sort slab cache list and establish maximum objects for defrag slabs Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 05/21] slub: Slab defrag core Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 06/21] slub: Add KICKABLE to avoid repeated kick() attempts Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 07/21] slub: Extend slabinfo to support -D and -F options Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 08/21] slub: add defrag statistics Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 09/21] slub: Trigger defragmentation from memory reclaim Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 10/21] buffer heads: Support slab defrag Christoph Lameter
2008-05-12  0:24   ` David Chinner
2008-05-15 17:42     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-15 23:10       ` David Chinner
2008-05-16 17:01         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-19  5:45           ` David Chinner
2008-05-19 16:44             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-20  0:25               ` David Chinner
2008-05-20  6:56                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-05-20 21:46                   ` David Chinner
2008-05-20 22:25                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-05-20 23:19                       ` David Chinner
2008-05-20 23:28                         ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21  6:15                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-05-21  6:24                             ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 17:52                               ` iput() in reclaim context Hugh Dickins
2008-05-21 17:58                                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-05-21 18:12                                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-20 23:22                       ` [patch 10/21] buffer heads: Support slab defrag Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-05-20 23:30                         ` David Chinner
2008-05-21  6:20                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-05-21  1:56                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-20 22:53             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 11/21] inodes: Support generic defragmentation Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 12/21] Filesystem: Ext2 filesystem defrag Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 13/21] Filesystem: Ext3 " Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 14/21] Filesystem: Ext4 " Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 15/21] Filesystem: XFS slab defragmentation Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  6:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 16/21] Filesystem: /proc filesystem support for slab defrag Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 17/21] Filesystem: Slab defrag: Reiserfs support Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 18/21] Filesystem: Socket inode defragmentation Christoph Lameter
2008-05-13 13:28   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-05-15 17:40     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-15 18:23       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 19/21] dentries: Add constructor Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 20/21] dentries: dentry defragmentation Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  3:08 ` [patch 21/21] slab defrag: Obsolete SLAB Christoph Lameter
2008-05-10  9:53   ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-11  2:15     ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-12  7:38       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-05-12  7:54         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-12 10:08           ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-12 10:23             ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-14 17:30               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 17:29           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 17:49             ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-14 18:03               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 18:18                 ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-14 19:21                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 19:49                     ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2008-05-14 20:33                       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 21:02                         ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-14 21:26                           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 21:54                             ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-15 17:15                               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-15  3:26                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-15  3:26                   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-15 17:05                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-15 17:49                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-15 17:58                       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-15 18:13                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-15 18:43                           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-15 18:51                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-15 19:09                               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-15 19:29                                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-15 20:14                                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-15 20:30                                     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-16 19:17                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-16 19:06                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-15 18:19                       ` Eric Dumazet
2008-05-15 18:19                         ` Eric Dumazet
2008-05-15 18:29                       ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-16  5:16                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-16  5:16                       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-14 18:05               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 20:46                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 20:58                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-14 21:00                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 21:21                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-14 21:33                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 21:43                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-14 21:53                             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 22:00                               ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-14 22:32                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 22:34                                 ` Christoph Lameter

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