Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/slob: Mark zone page state to get slab usage at /proc/meminfo

From: Ezequiel Garcia
Date: Tue Oct 23 2012 - 14:43:02 EST


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>
>> SLUB handles large kmalloc allocations falling back
>> to page-size allocations (kmalloc_large, etc).
>> This path doesn't touch NR_SLAB_XXRECLAIMABLE zone item state.
>
> Right. UNRECLAIMABLE allocations do not factor in reclaim decisions.
>

I wasn't asking about reclaim decisions.

I think my question wasn't clear.

The issue is: with SLUB large kmallocs don't set NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE
zone item.
Thus, they don't show at /proc/meminfo. Is this okey?

Thanks!

Ezequiel
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