Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753932AbZFWRnk (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:43:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752227AbZFWRne (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:43:34 -0400 Received: from smtp3.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.175.254]:48885 "EHLO smtp.ultrahosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752099AbZFWRnd (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:43:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:43:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Pekka Enberg cc: Andrey Borzenkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk Subject: Re: Why half of slabs are not shown in /proc/slabinfo? In-Reply-To: <1245653782.18751.12.camel@penberg-laptop> Message-ID: References: <200906211152.25100.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <84144f020906210426h6a41ad3csf6d9731663e30834@mail.gmail.com> <200906211530.13463.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <1245653782.18751.12.camel@penberg-laptop> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 555 Lines: 14 On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote: > If you exclude all the symbolic links, the number of caches matches. As > Hugh already explained, SLUB merges caches which shows up like this in > the sysfs directory. And if you enable full debugging by booting with "slub_debug" then they will be separate again. -- 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/