linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mm/slab: Improve performance of gathering slabinfo stats

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Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:03:56 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Aruna Ramakrishna <aruna.ramakrishna@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/slab: Improve performance of gathering slabinfo
 stats

On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 11:20 -0700, Aruna Ramakrishna wrote:
]
> -		list_for_each_entry(page, &n->slabs_full, lru) {
> -			if (page->active != cachep->num && !error)
> -				error = "slabs_full accounting error";
> -			active_objs += cachep->num;
> -			active_slabs++;
> -		}

Since you only removed this loop, you could track only number of
full_slabs.

This would avoid messing with n->num_slabs all over the places in fast
path.

Please also update slab_out_of_memory()