Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:54:35 -0700 (PDT) | | From | David Rientjes <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] slub: allow stats to be cleared |
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On a semi-related topic, it would have been nice to isolate all statistic > > files to its own directory: /sys/kernel/slab/kmalloc-256/stats/..., for > > example. It would have made collecting (and now clearing) all statistics > > much easier since userspace wouldn't need a predefined list of stat file > > names to scan. I wonder if Pekka would allow them to be moved... > > It's a non-production configuration option and the only known user of the ABI > is in slabinfo.c so maybe we can just go ahead and do that. Alternatively, I > think we can preserve the current ABI with symbolic links in sysfs? >
I think it would be best to just move them to /sys/kernel/slab/cache/stats. I'll propose a patch and we can see how it looks.
I remember trying to change `cpuslab_flush' to `cpu_slab_flush' before and you nack'd it, so I wasn't sure you'd accept this ABI change :)
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