Re: [PATCH] mm, slab: Extend slab/shrink to shrink all the memcg caches

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On Tue 02-07-19 14:37:30, Waiman Long wrote:
> Currently, a value of '1" is written to /sys/kernel/slab/<slab>/shrink
> file to shrink the slab by flushing all the per-cpu slabs and free
> slabs in partial lists. This applies only to the root caches, though.
> 
> Extends this capability by shrinking all the child memcg caches and
> the root cache when a value of '2' is written to the shrink sysfs file.

Why do we need a new value for this functionality? I would tend to think
that skipping memcg caches is a bug/incomplete implementation. Or is it
a deliberate decision to cover root caches only?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs



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