On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 20:41 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:[PATCH v2] slab: shrinks sizeof(struct kmem_cache)
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:This will solve the issue for small nr_cpu_ids but those with 4k cpus will
still have the issue.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter<cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Applied, thanks! Do we still want the __GFP_REPEAT patch from Konstantin
though?
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:Those with 4k cpus will be thankful I guess.
OTOH, I'm slightly worried that it might mask a real problem
with GFP_KERNEL not being aggressive enough. Mel?
I think that's already been demonstrated here, yes. It's just waiting
for another obscure workload to trigger it.