Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757381Ab2JWSnL (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:43:11 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f174.google.com ([209.85.223.174]:39884 "EHLO mail-ie0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756708Ab2JWSnJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:43:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0000013a8ed646c2-4cc34bd5-19c3-4e99-9fa0-248cdbc24feb-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <1350907434-2202-1-git-send-email-elezegarcia@gmail.com> <0000013a88ebfa65-af0fc24b-13fd-400f-b7fc-32230ca70620-000000@email.amazonses.com> <0000013a8ed646c2-4cc34bd5-19c3-4e99-9fa0-248cdbc24feb-000000@email.amazonses.com> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:43:09 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/slob: Mark zone page state to get slab usage at /proc/meminfo From: Ezequiel Garcia To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Bird , Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 849 Lines: 26 On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > >> SLUB handles large kmalloc allocations falling back >> to page-size allocations (kmalloc_large, etc). >> This path doesn't touch NR_SLAB_XXRECLAIMABLE zone item state. > > Right. UNRECLAIMABLE allocations do not factor in reclaim decisions. > I wasn't asking about reclaim decisions. I think my question wasn't clear. The issue is: with SLUB large kmallocs don't set NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE zone item. Thus, they don't show at /proc/meminfo. Is this okey? Thanks! Ezequiel -- 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/