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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 16:19:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080101151942.GA28085@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080101124741.GH11776@mit.edu>

> Yeah, unfortunately, querying to find out how much memory is being
> used by which parts of the system is something which I think needs to
> be more than just a debugging feature.  One could argue that "vmstat",

slabinfo is about querying kernel internals and requiring stable
and permanent interfaces to that would imply freezing the kernel
internals.

People who want to have information about slabs and other similar
kernel internal allocations will always have to deal with version
dependencies.

No way around that.

> Perhaps /proc/slabinfo should be that relatively stable interface, if

That would require at least never changing any slab caches in any 
subsystem. Obviously not an option. 

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-01 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-07 17:50 Major regression on hackbench with SLUB Steven Rostedt
2007-12-07 17:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-07 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-07 18:36   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-07 18:58     ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-08 22:16     ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-10  7:38       ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-12-10 14:00         ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-09  0:28     ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-13 22:11     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-11 14:33 ` Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers) Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 22:22   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-14  4:24     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-14  6:15       ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-21 12:09       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-21 12:26         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-21 16:26           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 16:33             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-21 21:56               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 16:18         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 16:44           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-21 22:11             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 22:16               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-21 22:17                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-21 22:27                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 22:54                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-21 23:20                       ` David Miller
2007-12-22  9:45                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-24 19:24                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 23:27                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-21 23:51                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-22  0:28                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22  0:33                         ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-12-22  2:19                         ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-22  2:44                           ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 10:03                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-22 12:37                           ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 12:51                             ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-22 12:54                               ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 13:27                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-22 13:01                             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-12-22 18:01                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-22 19:09                             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-22 19:29                               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-22 22:52                               ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2007-12-24  3:59                                 ` Alessandro Suardi
2007-12-22 19:25                             ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-22 21:00                               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-22 21:50                                 ` Al Viro
2007-12-22 23:29                                   ` Al Viro
2007-12-22 22:10                                 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-12-23  0:59                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-23  5:12                                     ` Willy Tarreau
2007-12-23 14:15                                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-24  3:45                                         ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-24 19:21                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-24 23:37                                             ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-25  3:34                                               ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-01 12:47                                                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-01 15:19                                                   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-01-01 16:23                                                   ` [patch] slub: provide /proc/slabinfo Ingo Molnar
2008-01-05  0:27                                                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-05  0:49                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-26 21:31                                               ` Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers) Christoph Lameter
2007-12-26 22:16                                                 ` Al Viro
2007-12-27  5:51                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-27 20:28                                                     ` SLUB sysfs support Christoph Lameter
2007-12-27 22:59                                                       ` Al Viro
2007-12-27 23:22                                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-27 23:53                                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-27 23:58                                                             ` Al Viro
2007-12-28  0:02                                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-28  0:45                                                                 ` Al Viro
2007-12-28  2:19                                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-28  3:26                                                                     ` Al Viro
2008-01-02 20:25                                                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-27 23:54                                                           ` Al Viro
2007-12-28  9:00                                                   ` Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers) Ingo Molnar
2007-12-28 14:52                                                     ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-22 19:46                             ` slabtop replacement was " Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 23:28                               ` Karol Swietlicki
2007-12-29 18:08                                 ` Karol Swietlicki
2007-12-21 22:49               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-21 17:44         ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-21 22:22           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 22:37             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 22:51               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-21 23:17                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-21 23:40                   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-21 23:54                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-22  0:02                     ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-12-21 22:52               ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-21 22:56               ` Ingo Molnar

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