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From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add callback back to slab pruning
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:38:16 -0400
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On September 29, 2002 11:47 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > I posted this Thursday but it seems to have gotten lost in
> > the storm of messages on slab.
>
> Ah, sorry, I neglected to answer.  Yes, I have been testing
> this for a few days, works fine thanks.

Been busy have you?  <grin>

> Calling out to the shrinker to find out how many objects
> they have is sneaky.

Yes.  However it does let us have the ratio calculation in one place
in vmscan.

> I haven't looked super-closely at the code, but it'd be nice
> to make shrinker_lock go away ;)

Will keep this in mind.

Thanks
Ed

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