From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx128.postini.com [74.125.245.128]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A57D56B0085 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:51:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:51:42 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 16/18] slab: propagate tunables values In-Reply-To: <1350656442-1523-17-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> Message-ID: <0000013a7a94c439-825659cc-8e6a-4905-909c-db1b230a4086-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <1350656442-1523-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1350656442-1523-17-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Glauber Costa Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Tejun Heo , Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, David Rientjes , Pekka Enberg , devel@openvz.org, Pekka Enberg , Suleiman Souhlal On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > SLAB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with tunables. > When creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any tunables > the parent cache already had. SLAB and SLUB allow tuning. Could you come up with some way to put these things into slab common and make it flexible so that the tuning could be used for future allocators (like SLAM etc)? -- 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