Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] vmscan: shrink_slab() require number of lru_pages, not page order

[Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > AFAICT this is not argument error but someone changed the naming of the
> > parameter.
>
> It's been there since day zero:
>
> : commit 2a16e3f4b0c408b9e50297d2ec27e295d490267a
> : Author:     Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
> : AuthorDate: Wed Feb 1 03:05:35 2006 -0800
> : Commit:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
> : CommitDate: Wed Feb 1 08:53:16 2006 -0800
> :
> :     [PATCH] Reclaim slab during zone reclaim

That only shows that the order parameter was passed to shrink_slab() which
is what I remember being done intentionally.

Vaguely recall that this was necessary to avoid shrink_slab() throwing out
too many pages for higher order allocs.

Initially zone_reclaim was full of heuristics that later were replaced by
counter as the new ZVCs became available and gradually better ways of
accounting for pages became possible.



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