From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glauber Costa Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] memcg/sl[au]b: shrink dead caches Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:16:34 +0400 Message-ID: <50103802.1070700@parallels.com> References: <1343227101-14217-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1343227101-14217-11-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: cgroups-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, Andrew Morton , David Rientjes , Pekka Enberg , Greg Thelen , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Frederic Weisbecker , devel-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Pekka Enberg , Kamezawa Hiroyuki , Suleiman Souhlal On 07/25/2012 09:13 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> In the slub allocator, when the last object of a page goes away, we >> don't necessarily free it - there is not necessarily a test for empty >> page in any slab_free path. > > That is true for the slab allocator as well. In either case calling > kmem_cache_shrink() will make the objects go away by draining the cached > objects and freeing the pages used for the objects back to the page > allocator. You do not need this patch. Just call the proper functions to > drop the objecgts in the caches in either allocator. > >> The slab allocator has a time based reaper that would eventually get rid >> of the objects, but we can also call it explicitly, since dead caches >> are not a likely event. > > So this is already for both allocators? > Yes, I just didn't updated the whole changelog. my bad.