Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] mm, slab: allocate off-slab freelists as reclaimable when appropriate

[Christopher Lameter]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> In SLAB, OFF_SLAB caches allocate management structures (currently just the
> freelist) from kmalloc caches when placement in a slab page together with
> objects would lead to suboptimal memory usage. For SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT caches,
> we can allocate the freelists from the newly introduced reclaimable kmalloc
> caches, because shrinking the OFF_SLAB cache will in general result to freeing
> of the freelists as well. This should improve accounting and anti-fragmentation
> a bit.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>