Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750999AbWCaGCJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:02:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751004AbWCaGCJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:02:09 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:47261 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750993AbWCaGCG (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:02:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:01:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clameter@engr.sgi.com, shai@scalex86.org, alok.kataria@calsoftinc.com, penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI Subject: Re: [patch] slab: add statistics for alien cache overflows Message-Id: <20060330220135.767663d7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060331055648.GB4334@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060331055648.GB4334@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 573 Lines: 12 Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > > Add a statistics counter which is incremented everytime the alien > cache overflows. alien_cache limit is hardcoded to 12 right now. > We can use this statistics to tune alien cache if needed in the future. Does it break slabtop, and whatever else reads /proc/slabinfo? - 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/