On Sat, 31 May 2014, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > > Well slub returns an error code if it fails > > ... to sort slabs by the nubmer of objects in use, which is not even > implied by the function declaration. Why can *shrinking*, which is what > kmem_cache_shrink must do at first place, ever fail? Because there is a memory allocation failure. Or there may be other processes going on that prevent shrinking. F.e. We may want to merge a patchset that does defragmentation of slabs at some point. -- 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>