linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 3/3] slub: make dead caches discard free slabs immediately

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:23:01 +0300
From:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 3/3] slub: make dead caches discard free slabs
 immediately

Hi Joonsoo,

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 05:00:09PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 03:55:29PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> > @@ -3381,6 +3390,15 @@ void __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *s)
> >  		kmalloc(sizeof(struct list_head) * objects, GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	unsigned long flags;
> >  
> > +	if (deactivate) {
> > +		/*
> > +		 * Disable empty slabs caching. Used to avoid pinning offline
> > +		 * memory cgroups by freeable kmem pages.
> > +		 */
> > +		s->cpu_partial = 0;
> > +		s->min_partial = 0;
> > +	}
> > +
> 
> Maybe, kick_all_cpus_sync() is needed here since object would
> be freed asynchronously so they can't see this updated value.

I thought flush_all() should do the trick, no?

Thanks,
Vladimir
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