Re: [patch 21/21] slab defrag: Obsolete SLAB

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:09:06PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Assumptions may be the issue. My own "reproducer" for remote frees is 
> available from my git tree and I usually prefer to run my own. We 

No doubt you prefer to run a test which fails to show a problem with
your code.  How about you try running a test which does show a problem?

> discussed the results of that program last fall. You stated yesterday that 
> your code is proprietary. I am not sure what I am allowed to do with the 
> code. I did not know that it was proprietary before yesterday and I would 
> have just forwarded that code to Pekka yesterday if I would not have 
> caught that message in time.

I'm surprised you're so cavalier about copyright.  There was nothing in
that code which permitted you to redistribute it.

> I thought that what you provided it was a test program to exercise 
> and optimize the scsi subsystem?

Why would you think that?  The subject of the email was "Slub test
program".

> > > Compile slabinfo and then do f.e. slabinfo -AD (this is documented in the 
> > > help text provided when enabling statistics).
> > 
> > That's an utterly unhelpful answer.  Let me try asking again.
> > 
> > Exactly how does collecting these stats work?  Am I supposed to zero
> > the counters after the TPC has done its initial ramp-up?  What commands
> > should I run, and at exactly which points?
> 
> There is no way of zeroing the counters. Run slabinfo -AD after the 
> test application has been running for awhile. If you want a differential 
> then you have to take two datapoints.

Is a differential interesting to you?

> > Otherwise I'll get something wrong and these numbers will be useless to
> > you.  Or that's what you'll claim anyway.
> 
> No. I guess I will end up with a lot of guess work of what is going on on 
> the system since the information is limited for some reason.

They're your statistics.  Tell me what you need.

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