Re: slab: Remove SLAB_NO_REAP option

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi,

On 2/23/06, Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
> SLAB_NO_REAP is documented as an option that will cause this slab
> not to be reaped under memory pressure. However, that is not what
> happens. The only thing that SLAB_NO_REAP controls at the moment
> is the reclaim of the unused slab elements that were allocated in
> batch in cache_reap(). Cache_reap() is run every few seconds
> independently of memory pressure.
>
> Could we remove the whole thing? Its only used by three slabs
> anyways and I cannot find a reason for having this option.

Looks good, and I have been meaning to do this myself as well.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>

P.S. Please use [email protected], not the gmail one. Thanks.

                               Pekka
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]
  Powered by Linux