Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932312AbWBXQRk (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:17:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932334AbWBXQRk (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:17:40 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:29632 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932312AbWBXQRj (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:17:39 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:16:43 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Pekka J Enberg cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com, manfred@colorfullife.com, mark.fasheh@oracle.com, alok.kataria@calsoftinc.com, kiran@scalex86.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: Don't scan cache_cache In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: 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: 747 Lines: 18 On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > From: Pekka Enberg > > The cache_cache object cache is used for bootstrapping, but the cache is > essentially static. It is unlikely that we ever have more than one page > allocated for it. As SLAB_NO_REAP is gone now, fix a regression by skipping > cache_cache explicitly in cache_reap(). There are other essentially static caches as well. Could we have something more general? Are you really seeing any measurable regression? - 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/