linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] SLUB: Mark merged slab caches in /proc/slabinfo

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Message-ID: <AANLkTi=qnYwpb3fMyVy2iDzt3Uv1ub3Se+f0NJGAa-Ga@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:08:23 -0700
From:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] SLUB: Mark merged slab caches in /proc/slabinfo

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> That would allow slabtop etc to show the number of actual allocations
> at the granularity that we want (ie you'd see who is the real user),
> but still then use the same slab pages and avoid the slab
> fragmentation.

It might be hard to interpret the data. Suppose "foo" and "bar"
are slab caches that have separate accounting, but a merged
allocator. Now we do 20 allocations from foo, and free 19 of them.
Then we do 19 allocations from bar.  The accounts would show
that foo has 1 object in use and 19 free. While bar would show
19 objects in use.

But the 19 "free" foo objects aren't free at all, they've been
handed out to bar.

-Tony
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