From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753423AbXDRBQU (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:16:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753430AbXDRBQU (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:16:20 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:7358 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753423AbXDRBQT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:16:19 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.14,420,1170662400"; d="scan'208"; a="229299790:sNHT16778979" Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:14:45 -0700 From: "Siddha, Suresh B" To: Christoph Lameter Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] slab: resize the alien caches too Message-ID: <20070418011445.GB30721@linux-os.sc.intel.com> References: <20070418004418.GA30721@linux-os.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:48:30PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > > > While going through the slab code, I observed that alien caches are > > not getting resized, when user changes the slab tunables. Appended patch > > tries to fix this. Please review and let me know if I missed anything. > > Let it be. We have not resized the alien caches ever and doing so may > cause serious memory usage. Size is hardcoded to 12 anyways. hmm.. I see. Let me do some experiments and getback to you(with what I am looking exactly). thanks, suresh