Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] slab: make more slab management structure off theslab

From: Joonsoo Kim
Date: Fri Dec 13 2013 - 02:00:54 EST


On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:13:08AM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:58:41PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> >
> > > Now, the size of the freelist for the slab management diminish,
> > > so that the on-slab management structure can waste large space
> > > if the object of the slab is large.
> >
> > Hmmm.. That is confusing to me. "Since the size of the freelist has shrunk
> > significantly we have to adjust the heuristic for making the on/off slab
> > placement decision"?
> >
> > Make this clearer.
>
> Yes. your understanding is right.
> I will replace above line with yours.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
> > Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

Hello, Pekka.

Below is updated patch for 5/5 in this series.
Now I get acks from Christoph to all patches in this series.
So, could you merge this patchset? :)
If you want to resend wholeset with proper ack, I will do it
with pleasure.

Thanks.

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