On Wed, 24 May 2017, Wei Yang wrote: > > > >Who is going to use those new entries and for what purpose? Why do we > >want to expose even more details of the slab allocator to the userspace. > >Is the missing information something fundamental that some user space > >cannot work without it? Seriously these are essential questions you > >should have answer for _before_ posting the patch and mention all those > >reasons in the changelog. > > It is me who wants to get more details of the slub behavior. > AFAIK, no one else is expecting this. I would appreciate some clearer structured statistics. These are important for diagnostics and for debugging. Do not go overboard with this. Respin it and provide also a cleanup of the slabinfo tool? I would appreciate it. > Hmm, if we really don't want to export these entries, why not remove related > code? Looks we are sure they will not be touched. Please have a look at the slabinfo code which depends on those fields in order to display slab information. I have patchsets here that will add more functionality to slab and those will also add additional fields to sysfs. -- 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>
