On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > Yeah, but the tool just writes 1 to /sys/kernel/slab/cache/shrink, i.e. > invokes shrink_store(), and I don't propose to remove slab placement > optimization from there. What I propose is to move slab placement > optimization from kmem_cache_shrink() to shrink_store(), because other > users of kmem_cache_shrink() don't seem to need it at all - they just > want to release empty slabs. Such a change wouldn't affect the behavior > of `slabinfo -s` at all. Well we have to go through the chain of partial slabs anyways so its easy to do the optimization at that 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>