Re: slab: Remove SLAB_NO_REAP option

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> > One cache_reap() may scan the free list but once its free the code is
> > skipped.
> 
> Which is _totally_ redundant for cache_cache.

Correct. So you are going to add a check to the loop that is useless for 
all other caches? The many have to sacrfice for the one?

> I don't think its worth it. It doesn't make much sense to create a
> separate object cache if you're not using it, we're better off
> converting those to kmalloc(). cache_cache is there to make
> bootstrapping easier, it is very unlikely that you ever have more than
> one page allocated for that cache which is why scanning the freelist
> _at all_ is silly. I think SLAB_NO_REAP should go away but we also
> must ensure we don't introduce a performance regression while doing
> that.

Got some way to get rid of cache_cache? Or remove it after boot?


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