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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: slab fragmentation ?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:41:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040929204143.134154bc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096500963.12861.21.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com>

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> # name            <active_objs> <num_objs> <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : tunables <batchcount> <limit> <sharedfactor> : slabdata <active_slabs> <num_slabs> <sharedavail>
> size-40             2633  11468     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    188    188      0
> size-40             2633  11468     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    188    188      0
> size-40             2633  11468     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    188    188      0
> size-40             2633  11468     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    188    188      0
> size-40             4457  27084     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    444    444      0
> size-40             7685  59292     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    972    972      0
> size-40            10761  89548     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata   1468   1468      0
> size-40            13589 119316     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata   1956   1956      0
> size-40            16717 149084     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata   2444   2444      0

That looks like plain brokenness rather than fragmentation.  We shouldn't
be allocating new pages until active_objs reaches num_objs, should we?

Unless the accouting is broken, or course...
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-30  3:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-29 23:36 Badari Pulavarty
2004-09-30  3:41 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-09-30  4:52   ` badari
2004-09-30 14:49   ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-30 14:48     ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-03  6:04       ` Manfred Spraul
2004-10-04 15:51         ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-04 16:08           ` Manfred Spraul
2004-10-04 17:37             ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-05 14:46             ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-05 17:58               ` Manfred Spraul
2004-10-05 18:27                 ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-05 18:49                   ` Manfred Spraul
2004-10-05 18:47                     ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-05 21:13                     ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-05 22:11                       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-10-05 22:18                         ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-10-06 14:58                     ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-09 14:28                       ` Manfred Spraul

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