Thanks for your kind reply.
I did the following experiment.
I create my own cache with kmem_cache_create() and specify the
constructor to be init_once()-- a simple constructor like NFS does.
I checked the cache parameter and find that each slab has 1 page and
can hold 10 objects.
Then, I used kmem_cache_alloc() to allocate 128 objects. So it should
occupy 12 full slabs and 1 partial slab. Right?
But when I walk through the slabs_full and slabs_partial list, I found
that slabs_full returned 13 slabs but slabs_partial returned 0.
That's why I am confused. I am using 2.6.16 BTW.
Any further insight?
Thanks,
Xin
On 6/7/06, Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> wrote:
On 6/6/06, Xin Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to check how many slabs are used for inode_cache, but
> found that all slabs are added to slabs_full list, and slabs_partial
> is always empty. Even if the active object number does not exactly
> occupy all slabs.
>
> Does that mean Linux 2.6 remove the use of slabs_partial?
No. If slabs_partial is really empty, the number of active objects
should match the number of objects in a slab; otherwise you should see
an error message when you do cat /proc/slabinfo (see s_show in
mm/slab.c for details).
How are you verifying that the partial list is empty?
On 6/6/06, Xin Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another question, the constructor transfered to the
> kmem_cache_create() function is called for every object in a slab when
> it is created. Is this true? Is there any way to call back a function
> _only once_ when a new slab is allocated?
We don't have per-slab constructors. Only per-object. What do you need it for?
Pekka
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