On Sat, 13 Mar 2021, Xunlei Pang wrote: > > Or we can simply remove the ability to retrieve the number of partial > > objects from sysfs? > > > > Not only sysfs, /proc/slabinfo is another user to calculate the > "active_objs", I'm afraid it's hard to change the ABI of this > commonly-used interface. Well the field is there but is is used for any real purpose? Could potentially be replaced by the total objects possible in the slab cache.