RE: [PATCH v3 4/4] mm/slub: correct the default value of slub_min_objects in doc

From: Song, Xiongwei
Date: Sat Dec 09 2023 - 09:00:44 EST


Hi Vlastimil,

I didn't change description as you mentioned because slab_min_objects doesn't
save the calculated value based on the number of processors, but the local
variables min_objects doesn't.

Regards,
Xiongwei

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> Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] mm/slub: correct the default value of slub_min_objects in doc
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> From: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There is no a value assigned to slub_min_objects by default, it always
> is 0 that is initialized by compiler if no assigned value by command line.
> min_objects is calculated based on processor numbers in calculate_order().
> For more details, see commit 9b2cd506e5f2 ("slub: Calculate min_objects
> based on number of processors.")
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/mm/slub.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/mm/slub.rst b/Documentation/mm/slub.rst
> index 6579a55b7852..56b27f493ba7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/mm/slub.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/mm/slub.rst
> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ list_lock once in a while to deal with partial slabs. That overhead is
> governed by the order of the allocation for each slab. The allocations
> can be influenced by kernel parameters:
>
> -.. slab_min_objects=x (default 4)
> +.. slab_min_objects=x (default 0)
> .. slab_min_order=x (default 0)
> .. slab_max_order=x (default 3 (PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>