From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx170.postini.com [74.125.245.170]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAE2D6B006E for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:43:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ie0-f169.google.com with SMTP id 10so7225153ied.14 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:43:09 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0000013a8ed646c2-4cc34bd5-19c3-4e99-9fa0-248cdbc24feb-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <1350907434-2202-1-git-send-email-elezegarcia@gmail.com> <0000013a88ebfa65-af0fc24b-13fd-400f-b7fc-32230ca70620-000000@email.amazonses.com> <0000013a8ed646c2-4cc34bd5-19c3-4e99-9fa0-248cdbc24feb-000000@email.amazonses.com> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:43:09 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/slob: Mark zone page state to get slab usage at /proc/meminfo From: Ezequiel Garcia Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Bird , Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > >> SLUB handles large kmalloc allocations falling back >> to page-size allocations (kmalloc_large, etc). >> This path doesn't touch NR_SLAB_XXRECLAIMABLE zone item state. > > Right. UNRECLAIMABLE allocations do not factor in reclaim decisions. > I wasn't asking about reclaim decisions. I think my question wasn't clear. The issue is: with SLUB large kmallocs don't set NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE zone item. Thus, they don't show at /proc/meminfo. Is this okey? Thanks! Ezequiel -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org