From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] slob: rework freelist handling
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:44:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070524174406.GZ11115@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705241024200.29173@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:27:54AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> > That's C) above. But you haven't answered the real question: why
> > bother? RECLAIMABLE is a bogus number and the VM treats it as such. We
> > can make no judgment on how much memory we can actually reclaim from
> > looking at reclaimable - it might very easily all be pinned.
>
> The memory was allocated from a slab that has SLAB_ACCOUNT_RECLAIM set. It
> is the responsibility of the slab allocator to properly account for these.
You keep asserting this, but the fact is if I ripped out all the
SLAB_ACCOUNT_RECLAIM logic, the kernel would be unaffected.
Because RECLAIM IS JUST A HINT. And not a very good one.
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Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 7:39 Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 7:39 ` [patch 2/3] slob: remove bigblock tracking Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 7:41 ` [patch 3/3] slob: improved alignment handling Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 14:53 ` [patch 1/3] slob: rework freelist handling Matt Mackall
2007-05-22 19:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 3:06 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 4:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 4:59 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 5:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 5:03 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 5:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 5:11 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 5:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 5:22 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 5:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 6:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 6:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 7:12 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 17:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 18:32 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-23 19:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 19:58 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-23 20:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 20:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 21:14 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-23 21:06 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-23 22:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 22:42 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-23 22:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 2:05 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 2:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 2:47 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 2:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 3:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 2:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 3:15 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 3:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 6:11 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-24 16:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 17:22 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-24 17:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 17:44 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2007-05-23 6:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 7:18 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 17:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 7:46 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 17:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 19:35 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-23 19:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 20:51 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-24 3:39 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 3:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 4:13 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 4:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 4:31 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 4:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 4:39 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 4:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 4:49 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 5:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 3:24 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 3:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 4:01 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 4:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 4:24 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 18:04 ` Christoph Lameter
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