From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yh0-f47.google.com (mail-yh0-f47.google.com [209.85.213.47]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201166B0035 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 09:14:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-yh0-f47.google.com with SMTP id t59so399943yho.20 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:14:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org. [2402:b800:7003:1:1::1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r46si980355yhm.272.2014.01.08.06.14.51 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:14:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 01:14:29 +1100 From: Anton Blanchard Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: Don't throw away partial remote slabs if there is no local memory Message-ID: <20140109011429.61ce8545@kryten> In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D453A4E@AcuExch.aculab.com> References: <20140107132100.5b5ad198@kryten> <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D453A4E@AcuExch.aculab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Laight Cc: "benh@kernel.crashing.org" , "paulus@samba.org" , "cl@linux-foundation.org" , "penberg@kernel.org" , "mpm@selenic.com" , "nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" Hi David, > Why not just delete the entire test? > Presumably some time a little earlier no local memory was available. > Even if there is some available now, it is very likely that some won't > be available again in the near future. I agree, the current behaviour seems strange but it has been around since the inital slub commit. Anton -- 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