Re: slab: Remove SLAB_NO_REAP option

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 12:19:21 EST


On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> We need _something_ to avoid excessive scanning of cache_cache. It takes a
> hell of a lot insmod/rmmod to actually free a full page. Maybe something
> like this (totally untested) patch?

What excessive scanning of cache_cache? If the per cpu cache of
cache_cache has been drained then there will be no scanning just an
inspection if there are zero elements.

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