Date:   Sun, 26 Feb 2023 11:51:00 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To:     Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc:     tkhai@ya.ru, hannes@cmpxchg.org, shakeelb@google.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] make slab shrink lockless
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:46:47 +0800 Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This patch series aims to make slab shrink lockless.

What an awesome changelog.

> 2. Survey
> =========

Especially this part.

Looking through all the prior efforts and at this patchset I am not
immediately seeing any statements about the overall effect upon
real-world workloads.  For a good example, does this patchset
measurably improve throughput or energy consumption on your servers?