From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 04:47:47 +0200 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] slob: rework freelist handling Message-ID: <20070524024747.GD13694@wotan.suse.de> References: <20070523183224.GD11115@waste.org> <20070523195824.GF11115@waste.org> <20070523210612.GI11115@waste.org> <20070523224206.GN11115@waste.org> <20070524020530.GA13694@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Matt Mackall , Andrew Morton , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:45:37PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > SLOB doesn't keep track of what pages might be reclaimable, so yes > > it reports zero to the VM. That doesn't make it non functional or > > even prevent slab reclaim from working. > > It does make the counters useless. The VM activities that depend on these > will not work. Sure some things may be suboptimal, but the VM cannot just fall over and become non-functional if there is no reclaimable slab, surely? -- 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