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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:32:21 +0300
From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm v2 1/3] slub: never fail to shrink cache
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:37:09AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> 
> > +			/* We do not keep full slabs on the list */
> > +			BUG_ON(free <= 0);
> 
> Well sorry we do actually keep a number of empty slabs on the partial
> lists. See the min_partial field in struct kmem_cache.

It's not about empty slabs, it's about full slabs: free == 0 means slab
is full.

Thanks,
Vladimir