linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm/slab: Improve performance of gathering slabinfo stats

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608170935500.12985@east.gentwo.org>
Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2016 09:36:12 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	aruna.ramakrishna@...cle.com
cc:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/slab: Improve performance of gathering slabinfo
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, aruna.ramakrishna@...cle.com wrote:

> I'll send out an updated slab counters patch with Joonsoo's suggested fix
> tomorrow (nr_slabs will be unsigned long for SLAB only, and there will be a
> separate definition for SLUB), and once that's in, I'll create a new patch
> that makes nr_slabs common for SLAB and SLUB, and also converts total_objects
> to unsigned long. Maybe it can include some more cleanup too. Does that sound
> acceptable?

Thats fine.