Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751196AbWBWTYT (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:24:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751348AbWBWTYT (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:24:19 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:15501 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751196AbWBWTYS (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:24:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:24:03 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai cc: Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Andrew Morton , Alok Kataria , manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: slab: Remove SLAB_NO_REAP option In-Reply-To: <20060223191706.GB3708@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20060223020957.478d4cc1.akpm@osdl.org> <1140719812.11455.1.camel@localhost> <20060223191706.GB3708@localhost.localdomain> 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: 553 Lines: 12 On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > OR, introduce smartness in cache_reap to break the loop earlier if we can > somehow dynamically recognise the cache is static. Right. One could inspect the sizes of the caches without taking the locks before committing to a real inspection under lock. - 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/