Re: [PATCH -mm v2 8/8] slab: make dead memcg caches discard free slabs immediately

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 10:26:28 EST


On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Vladimir Davydov wrote:

> Frankly, I incline to shrinking dead SLAB caches periodically from
> cache_reap too, because it looks neater and less intrusive to me. Also
> it has zero performance impact, which is nice.
>
> However, Christoph proposed to disable per cpu arrays for dead caches,
> similarly to SLUB, and I decided to give it a try, just to see the end
> code we'd have with it.
>
> I'm still not quite sure which way we should choose though...

Which one is cleaner?

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