Re: [PATCH v3] mm/slab: Improve performance of gathering slabinfo stats

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Aug 17 2016 - 15:04:09 EST


On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 11:20 -0700, Aruna Ramakrishna wrote:
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> - list_for_each_entry(page, &n->slabs_full, lru) {
> - if (page->active != cachep->num && !error)
> - error = "slabs_full accounting error";
> - active_objs += cachep->num;
> - active_slabs++;
> - }

Since you only removed this loop, you could track only number of
full_slabs.

This would avoid messing with n->num_slabs all over the places in fast
path.

Please also update slab_out_of_memory()