Re: [PATCH v6 25/29] memcg/sl[au]b: shrink dead caches

Christoph Lameter
2012-11-09T20:06:20Z

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I'd still like to give ACPI a thwap. That kmem_cache_shrink() in
> drivers/acpi/osl.c was added unchangelogged in a megapatch
> (73459f73e5d1602c59) so it's a mystery. Cc's optimistically added.

It does not hurt though and releasing cache objects when there will be no
objects added and removed from a slab cache is a good thing to do.