From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-it0-f69.google.com (mail-it0-f69.google.com [209.85.214.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 068346B0005 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:32:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-it0-f69.google.com with SMTP id e5so10101280ith.0 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from resqmta-po-08v.sys.comcast.net (resqmta-po-08v.sys.comcast.net. [2001:558:fe16:19:96:114:154:167]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b64si14397156ioj.204.2016.06.10.14.32.28 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:32:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] slub: reap free slabs periodically In-Reply-To: <1465575243-18882-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Message-ID: References: <1465575243-18882-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Pekka Enberg , David Rientjes , Joonsoo Kim , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org One reason for SLUBs creation was the 2 second scans in SLAB which causes significant disruption of latency sensitive tasksk. You can simply implement a reaper in userspace by running slabinfo -s if you have to have this. There is no need to duplicate SLAB problems. -- 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