On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > SLUB handles large kmalloc allocations falling back > to page-size allocations (kmalloc_large, etc). > This path doesn't touch NR_SLAB_XXRECLAIMABLE zone item state. Right. UNRECLAIMABLE allocations do not factor in reclaim decisions. > Without fully understanding it, I've decided to implement the same > behavior for SLOB, > leaving page-size allocations unaccounted on /proc/meminfo. > > Is this expected / wanted ? Yes that is fine. > SLAB, on the other side, handles every allocation through some slab cache, > so it always set the zone state. Right but the caching barely has any effect at large sizes. -- 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>