Re: [patch 1/2] slub: move min_partial to struct kmem_cach

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed Feb 25 2009 - 02:18:01 EST


On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > The second patch in this series as a /sys/kernel/slab/cache/min_partial
> > > tunable that uses calculate_min_partial() to enforce a sane range, so
> > > while it may not actually be doing any calculations, the ilog2() is
> > > appropriately placed in kmem_cache_open(). We don't want to be taking the
> > > log of the user's min_partial value.
> >
> > Then Rename the function to set_min_partial()?

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 08:37 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> I don't have any strong opinions as to the specific name, so I'll leave
> this up to Pekka. set_min_partial(), to me, seems to indicate that
> s->min_partial will unconditionally set to the value passed, which isn't
> necessarily true.

Applied, thanks!

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