Re: [PATCH] slab: Don't scan cache_cache

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Feb 24 2006 - 11:15:21 EST


On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The cache_cache object cache is used for bootstrapping, but the cache is
> essentially static. It is unlikely that we ever have more than one page
> allocated for it. As SLAB_NO_REAP is gone now, fix a regression by skipping
> cache_cache explicitly in cache_reap().

There are other essentially static caches as well. Could we have something
more general?

Are you really seeing any measurable regression?
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