On Mon 13-03-17 10:15:15, Michal Hocko wrote: > 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. Btw. it would be great if you could summarize the discussion you had at LCA here as well. -- 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>
