linux-kernel - Re: Why half of slabs are not shown in /proc/slabinfo?

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906231342560.11807@gentwo.org>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:43:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk
Subject: Re: Why half of slabs are not shown in /proc/slabinfo?

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> If you exclude all the symbolic links, the number of caches matches. As
> Hugh already explained, SLUB merges caches which shows up like this in
> the sysfs directory.

And if you enable full debugging by booting with "slub_debug" then they
will be separate again.

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