Re: [PATCH] reduce fragmentation due to kmem_cache_alloc_node

[Badari Pulavarty]

On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 11:08, Badari Pulavarty wrote:

> 
> I see size-64 "inuse" objects increasing. Eventually, it fills
> up entire low-mem. I guess while freeing up scsi-debug disks,
> is not cleaning up all the allocations :(
> 
> But one question I have is - Is it possible to hold size-64 slab,
> because it has a management allocation (slabp - 40 byte allocations)
> from alloc_slabmgmt() ?  I remember seeing this earlier. Is it worth
> moving all managment allocations to its own slab ? should I try it ?

Nope. Moving "slabp" allocations to its own slab, didn't fix anything.
I guess scsi-debug is not cleaning up properly :(

Thanks,
Badari

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