linux-kernel - Re: [patch 21/21] slab defrag: Obsolete SLAB

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2008 13:23:28 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@...hat.com>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Mel Gorman" <mel@...net.ie>, mpm@...enic.com,
	"Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@....cx>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 21/21] slab defrag: Obsolete SLAB

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> > Christoph fixed a tbench regression that was in the same ballpark as
> > the TPC regression reported by Matthew which is why we've asked the
> > Intel folks to re-test. But yeah, we're working on it.
>
>  What are your plans to fix it?

I don't have a reproducable test and my boxes are so tiny the issues
probably won't show up anyway. So all I can do at this point is to
make sure Matthew et al can easily re-test whenever we fix some other
regression that potentially affects his workload.

I only recently started tracking this issue so I have no idea where
we're at with this. Christoph? Matthew?
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