linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/23] Slab defragmentation V6

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711071003060.9000@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:04:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundatin.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/23] Slab defragmentation V6

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 17:11 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Slab defragmentation
> 
> I thought we had agreed that: targeted reclaim, was a more suitable term
> for this work as it does not do compaction.

It does compaction by removing less populated slabs. If a kick method 
reallocates the object instead of reclaiming it then this patchset fully 
support compaction. Its just that the kick methods are simplistic at this 
point.

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