From ac2b898ca6fb06196a26869c23b66afe7944e52e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:08:15 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] slab: Remove SLAB_NO_REAP option SLAB_NO_REAP is documented as an option that will cause this slab not to be reaped under memory pressure. However, that is not what happens. The only thing that SLAB_NO_REAP controls at the moment is the reclaim of the unused slab elements that were allocated in batch in cache_reap(). Cache_reap() is run every few seconds independently of memory pressure. Could we remove the whole thing? Its only used by three slabs anyways and I cannot find a reason for having this option. There is an additional problem with SLAB_NO_REAP. If set then the recovery of objects from alien caches is switched off. Objects not freed on the same node where they were initially allocated will only be reused if a certain amount of objects accumulates from one alien node (not very likely) or if the cache is explicitly shrunk. (Strangely __cache_shrink does not check for SLAB_NO_REAP) Getting rid of SLAB_NO_REAP fixes the problems with alien cache freeing. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: Mark Fasheh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ocfs2/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/ocfs2') diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c index 8dd3aafec499..09e1c57a86a0 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c @@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ static int ocfs2_initialize_mem_caches(void) ocfs2_lock_cache = kmem_cache_create("ocfs2_lock", sizeof(struct ocfs2_journal_lock), 0, - SLAB_NO_REAP|SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, + SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL, NULL); if (!ocfs2_lock_cache) return -ENOMEM; -- cgit v1.2.3