Re: [PATCH -mm 5/8] slab: remove kmem_cache_shrink retval

[Vladimir Davydov]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 09:48:51AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2014, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> 
> > Still, I really want to evict all empty slabs from cache on memcg
> > offline for sure. Handling failures there means introducing a worker
> > that will retry shrinking, but that seems to me as an unnecessary
> > complication, because there's nothing that can prevent us from shrinking
> > empty slabs from the cache, even if we merge slab defragmentation, isn't
> > it?
> >
> > May be, it's worth introducing a special function, say kmem_cache_zap(),
> > that will only evict empty slabs from the cache, plus disable empty
> > slabs caching? This function would be called only from memcg offline for
> > dead memcg caches.
> 
> I am fine with the lower impact version that you came up with later.

Oh, I missed a couple of your previous e-mails, because our mail server
marked them (along with a hundred or so another messages :-) ) as junk
for some reason. Going to turn off the filter completely.

Sorry for being inconsistent and thank you.
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