From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.193.32]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9FMhDNX070384 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:43:16 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id i9FMhCOX159148 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:43:12 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9FMhCti013799 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:43:12 -0600 Subject: Re: [PATCH] reduce fragmentation due to kmem_cache_alloc_node From: Badari Pulavarty In-Reply-To: <1097863727.2861.43.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <41684BF3.5070108@colorfullife.com> <1097863727.2861.43.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1097879593.2861.61.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 15 Oct 2004 15:33:14 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Manfred Spraul Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List List-ID: On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 11:08, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > I see size-64 "inuse" objects increasing. Eventually, it fills > up entire low-mem. I guess while freeing up scsi-debug disks, > is not cleaning up all the allocations :( > > But one question I have is - Is it possible to hold size-64 slab, > because it has a management allocation (slabp - 40 byte allocations) > from alloc_slabmgmt() ? I remember seeing this earlier. Is it worth > moving all managment allocations to its own slab ? should I try it ? Nope. Moving "slabp" allocations to its own slab, didn't fix anything. I guess scsi-debug is not cleaning up properly :( Thanks, Badari -- 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: aart@kvack.org