Re: [patch] slab: add statistics for alien cache overflows

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:01:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Add a statistics counter which is incremented everytime the alien
> >  cache overflows.  alien_cache limit is hardcoded to 12 right now.
> >  We can use this statistics to tune alien cache if needed in the future.
> 
> Does it break slabtop, and whatever else reads /proc/slabinfo?

These stats get compiled in only with DEBUG_SLAB.  Even with DEBUG_SLAB
compiled in, slabtop does not break.  I guess slabtop is not wired to read
these extra stats.  Is there anything else that reads slabinfo apart from
slabtop?  I could find only slabtop to be relevant with the procps package.

Thanks,
Kiran

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