Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:16:34 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4.20 71/92] Revert "mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects" |
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:30:44AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 14:43 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let > > me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> > > > > commit a9a238e83fbb0df31c3b9b67003f8f9d1d1b6c96 upstream. > > > > This reverts commit 172b06c32b9497 ("mm: slowly shrink slabs with a > > relatively small number of objects"). > > This revert will result in the slab caches of dead > cgroups with a small number of remaining objects never > getting reclaimed, which can be a memory leak in some > configurations. > > But hey, that's your tradeoff to make.
That's what is in Linus's tree. Should we somehow diverge from that?
thanks,
greg k-h
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