linux-kernel - Re: [patch] slub: allow stats to be cleared

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Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:49:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] slub: allow stats to be cleared

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, David Rientjes wrote:

> On a semi-related topic, it would have been nice to isolate all statistic
> files to its own directory: /sys/kernel/slab/kmalloc-256/stats/..., for
> example.  It would have made collecting (and now clearing) all statistics
> much easier since userspace wouldn't need a predefined list of stat file
> names to scan.  I wonder if Pekka would allow them to be moved...

I am for it.

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