From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:05:07 -0800 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, ikomyagin@gmail.com, Stephen Hemminger , Christoph Lameter , Joonsoo Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mark some slabs as visible not mergeable Message-ID: <20180224210507.GA28183@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20180224190454.23716-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180224190454.23716-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:04:52AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > This fixes an old bug in iproute2's ss command because it was > reading slabinfo to get statistics. There isn't a better API > to do this, and one can argue that /proc is a UAPI that must > not change. > > Therefore this patch set adds a flag to slab to give another > reason to prevent merging, and then uses it in network code. This is exactly the solution I would have suggested. Note that SLUB has always had slab merging, so this tool has been broken since 2.6.22 on any kernel with CONFIG_SLUB. Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox -- 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