From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070822.154023.20890574.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Limit the maximum size of merged slab caches From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: Christoph Lameter Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:19:19 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: To: clameter@sgi.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > We always switch off the debugging bits of slabs that are too large > for free pointer relocationi (256k, 512k). This means that we may create > kmem_cache structures that look as if they are satisfying the requirements > for merging even if slub_debug is set. Sysfs handling may think they are > mergeable and thus creates unique ids that may then clash. > > [Patches in the works are soon going to make that limit obsolete] > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: David S. Miller -- 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