Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:33:42 -0500 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers) |
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On 12/21/2007 07:28 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes: > >> Christoph, /proc/slabinfo is an _ABI_. You HAVE to provide it. slabtop >> relies on it, people use it every day to monitor memory consumption. > > It's definitely not a stable ABI. slabtop tends to exit without any > error message on any slabinfo version number increase and I've seen > that happen several times in not so old kernels. > > Requiring just another slabtop update isn't really a big deal. > > Also it's not that it's a critical functionality like udev. >
There's also Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c, which really belongs in some kind of 'kernel utilities' package. Since it's so intimately tied to kernel version I don't think it belongs in util-linux.
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