On Wed 08-03-17 09:58:58, Cristopher Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > JFTR the previous version was posted here: https://lwn.net/Articles/371892/ > > and Dave had some concerns https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/8/329 which led > > to a different approach and design of the slab shrinking > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/8/329. > > > > I haven't looked at this series yet but has those concerns been > > addressed/considered? > > Well yes this has been discussed for a couple of years. The basic approach > is not only needed for the file systems (like what Chinner was focusing > on) but in general for slab caches. The objection was regarding the > integration into the slab reclaim logic in vmscan.c and the filesystem > reclaim in general. > > Dave and Matthew were at linux.conf.au and we agreed to first try it with > the radix tree and then generalize from there. The reclaim logic > was a bit hacky and we will have to find some better way to > integrate this. > > There is a video on youtube capturing the discussion (My talk on movable > kernel objects). Hmm, OK. There seems to be a slot to discuss this at LSFMM this year so I hope we can discuss your proposal there. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
