Re: [LSF/MM ATTEND] slab cache extension -- slab cache in fixed size

[Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>]

On 02/26 2014 02:26 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Jeff Liu wrote:
> 
>> In this case, another thing I'm hesitating about whether to export the cache_limit
>> via /proc/slabinfo by extending its tunable fields -- the per-CPU slab cache limit
>> and batchcount, as thus will change the user space interface and slabtop(1) need to
>> be modified accordingly.
> 
> Can you move the code to handle /sys/kernel/slab into mm/slab_common.c and
> then make slab use that? (Maybe a bit of a tough call but that has to be
> done at some point).

Yes, so that we can enabled those debug functions for both slab and slub, thanks for
your direction. :)

> 
> Once you got a directly with settings per slab then its trivial to add
> another field.

Indeed, that would be convenient afterwards.


Thanks,
-Jeff

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