Re: [patch 1/3] slob: rework freelist handling

Nick Piggin
2007-05-24T02:47:47Z

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:45:37PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > SLOB doesn't keep track of what pages might be reclaimable, so yes
> > it reports zero to the VM. That doesn't make it non functional or
> > even prevent slab reclaim from working.
>
> It does make the counters useless. The VM activities that depend on these
> will not work.

Sure some things may be suboptimal, but the VM cannot just fall over
and become non-functional if there is no reclaimable slab, surely?