linux-kernel - Re: [patch] slab: resize the alien caches too

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Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:14:45 -0700
From:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] slab: resize the alien caches too

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:48:30PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> 
> > While going through the slab code, I observed that alien caches are
> > not getting resized, when user changes the slab tunables. Appended patch
> > tries to fix this. Please review and let me know if I missed anything.
> 
> Let it be. We have not resized the alien caches ever and doing so may 
> cause serious memory usage. Size is hardcoded to 12 anyways.

hmm.. I see.

Let me do some experiments and getback to you(with what I am looking
exactly).

thanks,
suresh
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