Re: [PATCH v6 25/29] memcg/sl[au]b: shrink dead caches

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Nov 09 2012 - 15:06:07 EST


On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I'd still like to give ACPI a thwap. That kmem_cache_shrink() in
> drivers/acpi/osl.c was added unchangelogged in a megapatch
> (73459f73e5d1602c59) so it's a mystery. Cc's optimistically added.

It does not hurt though and releasing cache objects when there will be no
objects added and removed from a slab cache is a good thing to do.
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