From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/slab: Fix drain freelist excessively
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 15:46:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0000013f9aea494f-7a5fe6c7-47d2-42a9-bbe6-5dbc85dab0a5-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372069394-26167-1-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> The drain_freelist is called to drain slabs_free lists for cache reap,
> cache shrink, memory hotplug callback etc. The tofree parameter is the
> number of slab objects to free instead of the number of slabs to free.
Well its intended to be the number of slabs to free. The patch does not
fix the callers that pass the number of slabs.
I think the best approach would be to fix the callers that pass # of
objects. Make sure they pass # of slabs.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-01 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-24 10:23 Wanpeng Li
2013-06-24 10:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/slab: Sharing s_next and s_stop between slab and slub Wanpeng Li
2013-06-24 21:23 ` David Rientjes
2013-06-27 0:21 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-06-27 0:21 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-01 15:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-07-01 23:49 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-01 23:49 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-07 16:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-08 0:16 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-08 8:03 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-08 0:16 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-06-24 10:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/slab: Fix /proc/slabinfo unwriteable for slab Wanpeng Li
2013-07-01 15:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-07-01 23:43 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-01 23:43 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-01 15:46 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2013-07-01 23:45 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/slab: Fix drain freelist excessively Wanpeng Li
2013-07-01 23:45 ` Wanpeng Li
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