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SubjectRe: [patch 1/2] slub: move min_partial to struct kmem_cach
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> > The second patch in this series as a /sys/kernel/slab/cache/min_partial
> > tunable that uses calculate_min_partial() to enforce a sane range, so
> > while it may not actually be doing any calculations, the ilog2() is
> > appropriately placed in kmem_cache_open(). We don't want to be taking the
> > log of the user's min_partial value.
>
> Then Rename the function to set_min_partial()?
>

I don't have any strong opinions as to the specific name, so I'll leave
this up to Pekka. set_min_partial(), to me, seems to indicate that
s->min_partial will unconditionally set to the value passed, which isn't
necessarily true.


slub: rename calculate_min_partial() to set_min_partial()

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
---
mm/slub.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2170,7 +2170,7 @@ static int init_kmem_cache_nodes(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags)
}
#endif

-static void calculate_min_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long min)
+static void set_min_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long min)
{
if (min < MIN_PARTIAL)
min = MIN_PARTIAL;
@@ -2321,7 +2321,7 @@ static int kmem_cache_open(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags,
* The larger the object size is, the more pages we want on the partial
* list to avoid pounding the page allocator excessively.
*/
- calculate_min_partial(s, ilog2(s->size));
+ set_min_partial(s, ilog2(s->size));
s->refcount = 1;
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
s->remote_node_defrag_ratio = 1000;
@@ -3854,7 +3854,7 @@ static ssize_t min_partial_store(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *buf,
if (err)
return err;

- calculate_min_partial(s, min);
+ set_min_partial(s, min);
return length;
}
SLAB_ATTR(min_partial);

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