From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] slub: allow stats to be cleared
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:23:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD97107.6040001@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910161129320.21328@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Hi David,
David Rientjes wrote:
> On a semi-related topic, it would have been nice to isolate all statistic
> files to its own directory: /sys/kernel/slab/kmalloc-256/stats/..., for
> example. It would have made collecting (and now clearing) all statistics
> much easier since userspace wouldn't need a predefined list of stat file
> names to scan. I wonder if Pekka would allow them to be moved...
It's a non-production configuration option and the only known user of
the ABI is in slabinfo.c so maybe we can just go ahead and do that.
Alternatively, I think we can preserve the current ABI with symbolic
links in sysfs?
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-17 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-15 9:20 [patch] slub: allow stats to be cleared David Rientjes
2009-10-15 19:53 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-10-16 16:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-16 18:33 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-16 18:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-17 1:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-17 8:55 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-17 20:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-20 21:41 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-21 6:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-17 7:23 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-10-17 8:54 ` David Rientjes
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