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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] mm/slab: Improve performance of gathering slabinfo stats
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 09:21:56AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>
> > If above my comments are fixed, all counting would be done with
> > holding a lock. So, atomic definition isn't needed for the SLAB.
>
> Ditto for slub. struct kmem_cache_node is alrady defined in mm/slab.h.
> Thus it is a common definition already and can be used by both.
>
> Making nr_slabs and total_objects unsigned long would be great.

In SLUB, nr_slabs is manipulated without holding a lock so atomic
operation should be used.

Anyway, Aruna. Could you handle my comment?

Thank.

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