From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264244AbTE0W1Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 18:27:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264312AbTE0W1Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 18:27:24 -0400 Received: from pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com ([12.47.58.20]:36326 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264244AbTE0W1Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 18:27:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:38:22 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Woodhouse Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark shrinkable slabs as being reclaimable Message-Id: <20030527153822.7dd47ca3.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <1054074662.26966.4.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> References: <200305252319.h4PNJkpJ027852@hera.kernel.org> <1054074662.26966.4.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 May 2003 22:40:38.0389 (UTC) FILETIME=[FEC05250:01C324A0] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 23:11, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > ChangeSet 1.1308, 2003/05/25 15:11:47-07:00, akpm@digeo.com > > > > [PATCH] mark shrinkable slabs as being reclaimable > > > > All slabs which can be reclaimed via VM presure are marked as being > > shrinkable, so the core slab code will keep count of their pages. > > If my understanding of this is correct -- stuff that will be freed on > prune_icache() or other memory pressure should be marked such -- then... That is correct. > No. > No. > No. OK ;) Could you please fix that up in your next code drop?