On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Well, sure. I was actually planning to rip out SLUB merging completely > because it makes /proc/slabinfo so useless but never got around doing > that. Ripping out cache merging entirely for the benefit of an interface seems like overkill, it actually allows the allocator to return cache-hot objects that has a small but measurable impact on performance for some networking loads. It would probably be better to increase awareness of slabinfo -a and the use of slub_nomerge on the command line when debugging issues. The most complete solution would be to move everything out of struct kmem_cache except what is necessary for slabinfo and then point to the actual cache data structure that could be shared by merged caches. That's not hard to do, but would add an increment to both the alloc and free fastpaths and require some surgery throughout all of the slub code to understand the new data structures and that would be a pretty big patch. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>