On 07/25/2012 09:13 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> In the slub allocator, when the last object of a page goes away, we >> don't necessarily free it - there is not necessarily a test for empty >> page in any slab_free path. > > That is true for the slab allocator as well. In either case calling > kmem_cache_shrink() will make the objects go away by draining the cached > objects and freeing the pages used for the objects back to the page > allocator. You do not need this patch. Just call the proper functions to > drop the objecgts in the caches in either allocator. > >> The slab allocator has a time based reaper that would eventually get rid >> of the objects, but we can also call it explicitly, since dead caches >> are not a likely event. > > So this is already for both allocators? > Yes, I just didn't updated the whole changelog. my bad. -- 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>