Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:51:01 +0300 | Subject | Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning, regression? | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > (Pekka? This is a real _problem_. The whole "confused debugging" is > wasting a lot of peoples time. Can we please try to get slabinfo > statistics work right for the merged state. Or perhaps decide to just > not merge at all?)
I sent proof of concept patches that hopefully fix SLUB statistics for merged case. Lets see what Christoph and David think of them and if it's a dead end, I'd be inclined to rip out slab merging completely....
Pekka
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