From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
cw@f00f.org, mfedyk@matchmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:29:54 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40394982.9090300@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402220903360.3301@ppc970.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>yeah. We should have made that change when making shrink_slab() ignore
>>highmem scanning.
>>
>>Something like this (the function needs a rename)
>>
>
>Why not just pass in the list of zones? That way the _caller_ determines
>what zones he is interested in.
>
>So just add a "struct zonelist *zonelist" as the argument, the same way
>"__alloc_pages()" has..
>
>
The caller might as well just pass in the total size of all
LRUs that it has scanned. It has to traverse the zones anyway,
and this enables it to take the size *before* shrinking, which
gives you a better number.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-23 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-22 0:50 Large slab cache in 2.6.1 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 1:09 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 1:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-02-22 2:03 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 2:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-02-22 2:38 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-02-22 2:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 2:58 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:33 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:46 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:54 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:36 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 3:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-22 3:11 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 3:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-22 3:29 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 3:31 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 4:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 4:10 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 4:30 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 4:41 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 5:37 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 5:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 5:52 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 5:50 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 6:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 6:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 6:35 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 6:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 7:20 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 8:36 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 9:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 0:16 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 0:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 0:34 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 0:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 0:54 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 1:06 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 6:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 6:58 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 7:20 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 6:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-23 0:29 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-02-22 6:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 16:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-22 17:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-23 3:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 21:13 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-02-22 14:03 ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-02-23 2:28 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-23 3:33 ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-02-22 3:21 ` Mike Fedyk
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2004-02-22 11:00 Manfred Spraul
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