From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: SLUB sysfs support
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:25:04 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801021222250.20331@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071228032645.GM27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 06:19:46PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > nfsd4_delegations? What is this about?
>
> The random lifetimes of user-visible files you create in sysfs.
Well these are symlinks.
> > How do I scan for the symlinks in sysfs?
>
> At which point are you going to do that? AFAICS, the fundamental problem
> is that you
> * have aliases indistinguishable, so kmem_cache_destroy() can't tell
> which one is going away, no matter what
> * have per-alias objects in sysfs
> As the result, you have a user-visible mess in that directory in sysfs.
> And I don't see how you would deal with that - on the "the contents of
> directory changes in so-and-so way when such-and-such operation is
> done", not the implementation details one.
If the alias count of a kmem_cache structure reaches zero then all aliases
can be taken down. At that point we know that no aliases exist anymore.
> BTW, I'm rather sceptical about free use of slabs; keep in mind that their
> names have to be unique with your sysfs layout, so...
What do you mean by free use of slabs? Creation of new slab caches to
avoid the rounding up to order 2 size?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-02 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-07 17:50 Major regression on hackbench with SLUB Steven Rostedt
2007-12-07 17:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-07 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-07 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-07 18:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-08 22:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-10 7:38 ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-12-10 14:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-09 0:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-13 22:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-11 14:33 ` Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers) Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 22:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-14 4:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-14 6:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-21 12:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-21 12:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-21 16:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 16:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-21 21:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 16:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-21 22:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 22:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-21 22:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-21 22:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 22:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-21 23:20 ` David Miller
2007-12-22 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-24 19:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-21 23:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-22 0:28 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 0:33 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-12-22 2:19 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-22 2:44 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 10:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-22 12:37 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 12:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-22 12:54 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 13:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-22 13:01 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-12-22 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-22 19:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-22 19:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-22 22:52 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2007-12-24 3:59 ` Alessandro Suardi
2007-12-22 19:25 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-22 21:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-22 21:50 ` Al Viro
2007-12-22 23:29 ` Al Viro
2007-12-22 22:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-12-23 0:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-23 5:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-12-23 14:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-24 3:45 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-24 19:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-24 23:37 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-25 3:34 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-01 12:47 ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-01 15:19 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-01 16:23 ` [patch] slub: provide /proc/slabinfo Ingo Molnar
2008-01-05 0:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-05 0:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-26 21:31 ` Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers) Christoph Lameter
2007-12-26 22:16 ` Al Viro
2007-12-27 5:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-27 20:28 ` SLUB sysfs support Christoph Lameter
2007-12-27 22:59 ` Al Viro
2007-12-27 23:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-27 23:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-27 23:58 ` Al Viro
2007-12-28 0:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-28 0:45 ` Al Viro
2007-12-28 2:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-28 3:26 ` Al Viro
2008-01-02 20:25 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-12-27 23:54 ` Al Viro
2007-12-28 9:00 ` Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers) Ingo Molnar
2007-12-28 14:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-22 19:46 ` slabtop replacement was " Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 23:28 ` Karol Swietlicki
2007-12-29 18:08 ` Karol Swietlicki
2007-12-21 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-21 17:44 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-21 22:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 22:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-21 22:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-21 23:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-21 23:40 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-21 23:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-22 0:02 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-12-21 22:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-21 22:56 ` Ingo Molnar
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