linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] slabinfo: parse all NUMA attributes

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2002181615550.20682@www.lameter.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:16:51 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:     "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>
cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] slabinfo: parse all NUMA attributes

On Mon, 17 Feb 2020, Tobin C. Harding wrote:

> I found a few files in /sys/kernel/slab/foo/ that contain NUMA info that
> is not currently being parsed by `slabinfo.c`.  I do not know whether
> this is intentional or not?  Since I did not know this I just printed
> the info in the NUMA report section like is done for the per node slabs
> and partial slabs info.
>
> Just for your interest; I found these while re-writing slabinfo in Rust,
> thanks to the type-system.  I guess that if they were unintentionally
> missed then this is a small win, if they were intentionally missed then
> this series is just noise :)

It was just to make the display simpler and I did not get around to the
full implementation (by adding some sort of NUMA option) since other
things kept coming up.