Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759315AbXKGSEb (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:04:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752194AbXKGSEW (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:04:22 -0500 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:40251 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751795AbXKGSEV (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:04:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:04:20 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Peter Zijlstra cc: akpm@linux-foundatin.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 00/23] Slab defragmentation V6 In-Reply-To: <1194424650.6289.109.camel@twins> Message-ID: References: <20071107011130.382244340@sgi.com> <1194424650.6289.109.camel@twins> 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: 727 Lines: 18 On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 17:11 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Slab defragmentation > > I thought we had agreed that: targeted reclaim, was a more suitable term > for this work as it does not do compaction. It does compaction by removing less populated slabs. If a kick method reallocates the object instead of reclaiming it then this patchset fully support compaction. Its just that the kick methods are simplistic at this point. - 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/