Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Nov 2007 11:26:55 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] slub: fix Objects count |
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On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> The count of active Objects shown by Slub's slabinfo is too approximate, > because each cpu slab is counted as all in use, even when lots are free. > That makes tracing leaks harder than it need be.
True but that is the way it is for performance reasons.
> Add a free count into kmem_cache_cpu (which doesn't enlarge it on 64-bit), > to keep that count in the hot and dirty per-cpu cacheline.
Adds to much overhead to the fast paths and will make the current optimizations in mm impossible.
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