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| author | Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> | 2006-03-22 00:08:15 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-22 07:53:59 -0800 |
| commit | ac2b898ca6fb06196a26869c23b66afe7944e52e (patch) | |
| tree | e82e7bebd89b02813ce23f76fec4aeb5626da655 /drivers | |
| parent | 911851e6ee6ac4e26f07be342a89632f78494fef (diff) | |
[PATCH] slab: Remove SLAB_NO_REAP option
SLAB_NO_REAP is documented as an option that will cause this slab not to be
reaped under memory pressure. However, that is not what happens. The only
thing that SLAB_NO_REAP controls at the moment is the reclaim of the unused
slab elements that were allocated in batch in cache_reap(). Cache_reap()
is run every few seconds independently of memory pressure.
Could we remove the whole thing? Its only used by three slabs anyways and
I cannot find a reason for having this option.
There is an additional problem with SLAB_NO_REAP. If set then the recovery
of objects from alien caches is switched off. Objects not freed on the
same node where they were initially allocated will only be reused if a
certain amount of objects accumulates from one alien node (not very likely)
or if the cache is explicitly shrunk. (Strangely __cache_shrink does not
check for SLAB_NO_REAP)
Getting rid of SLAB_NO_REAP fixes the problems with alien cache freeing.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c index ff79e68b347..7b82ff090d4 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c @@ -3639,7 +3639,7 @@ iscsi_tcp_init(void) taskcache = kmem_cache_create("iscsi_taskcache", sizeof(struct iscsi_data_task), 0, - SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_NO_REAP, NULL, NULL); + SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL, NULL); if (!taskcache) return -ENOMEM; |