The patch titled Subject: mm/slab: drain the free slab as much as possible has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-slab-drain-the-free-slab-as-much-as-possible.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slab-drain-the-free-slab-as-much-as-possible.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slab-drain-the-free-slab-as-much-as-possible.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm/slab: drain the free slab as much as possible slabs_tofree() implies freeing all free slab. We can do it with just providing INT_MAX. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab.c | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/slab.c~mm-slab-drain-the-free-slab-as-much-as-possible mm/slab.c --- a/mm/slab.c~mm-slab-drain-the-free-slab-as-much-as-possible +++ a/mm/slab.c @@ -895,12 +895,6 @@ static int init_cache_node_node(int node return 0; } -static inline int slabs_tofree(struct kmem_cache *cachep, - struct kmem_cache_node *n) -{ - return (n->free_objects + cachep->num - 1) / cachep->num; -} - static void cpuup_canceled(long cpu) { struct kmem_cache *cachep; @@ -965,7 +959,7 @@ free_slab: n = get_node(cachep, node); if (!n) continue; - drain_freelist(cachep, n, slabs_tofree(cachep, n)); + drain_freelist(cachep, n, INT_MAX); } } @@ -1117,7 +1111,7 @@ static int __meminit drain_cache_node_no if (!n) continue; - drain_freelist(cachep, n, slabs_tofree(cachep, n)); + drain_freelist(cachep, n, INT_MAX); if (!list_empty(&n->slabs_full) || !list_empty(&n->slabs_partial)) { @@ -2287,7 +2281,7 @@ int __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cach check_irq_on(); for_each_kmem_cache_node(cachep, node, n) { - drain_freelist(cachep, n, slabs_tofree(cachep, n)); + drain_freelist(cachep, n, INT_MAX); ret += !list_empty(&n->slabs_full) || !list_empty(&n->slabs_partial); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx are mm-page_ref-use-page_ref-helper-instead-of-direct-modification-of-_count.patch mm-rename-_count-field-of-the-struct-page-to-_refcount.patch mm-slab-hold-a-slab_mutex-when-calling-__kmem_cache_shrink.patch mm-slab-remove-bad_alien_magic-again.patch mm-slab-drain-the-free-slab-as-much-as-possible.patch mm-slab-factor-out-kmem_cache_node-initialization-code.patch mm-slab-clean-up-kmem_cache_node-setup.patch mm-slab-dont-keep-free-slabs-if-free_objects-exceeds-free_limit.patch mm-slab-racy-access-modify-the-slab-color.patch mm-slab-make-cache_grow-handle-the-page-allocated-on-arbitrary-node.patch mm-slab-separate-cache_grow-to-two-parts.patch mm-slab-refill-cpu-cache-through-a-new-slab-without-holding-a-node-lock.patch mm-slab-lockless-decision-to-grow-cache.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html