Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751751AbWBWRVi (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:21:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751760AbWBWRVh (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:21:37 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:57300 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751751AbWBWRVh (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:21:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:20:35 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Pekka J Enberg cc: Andrew Morton , Alok Kataria , clameter@engr.sgi.com, manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: slab: Remove SLAB_NO_REAP option In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20060223020957.478d4cc1.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 655 Lines: 15 On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > We need _something_ to avoid excessive scanning of cache_cache. It takes a > hell of a lot insmod/rmmod to actually free a full page. Maybe something > like this (totally untested) patch? What excessive scanning of cache_cache? If the per cpu cache of cache_cache has been drained then there will be no scanning just an inspection if there are zero elements. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/