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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Gautham shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slab: start_cpu_timer/cache_reap CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU problems
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:14:38 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702201402420.17433@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45DB6FC7.60502@qualcomm.com>

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Max Krasnyansky wrote:

> Ok. Sounds like disabling cache_reaper is a better option for now. Like you
> said
> it's unlikely that slabs will grow much if that cpu is not heavily used by the
> kernel.

Running for prolonged times without cache_reaper is no good.

What we are talking about here is to disable the cache_reaper during cpu 
shutdown. The slab cpu shutdown will clean the per cpu caches anyways so 
we really do not need the slab_reaper running during cpu shutdown.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-20 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-29  1:13 Oleg Nesterov
2007-01-29 16:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-29 17:19   ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-01-29 17:27     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-29 18:27       ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-01-29 19:09         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-29 19:29           ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-01-29 19:25         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-29 19:49           ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-01-29 20:29             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-29 21:05               ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-01-29 21:48                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-29 22:14                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-20 18:39         ` Max Krasnyansky
2007-02-20 18:45           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-20 20:05             ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-20 21:22               ` Max Krasnyansky
2007-02-20 21:35                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-20 22:01                   ` Max Krasnyansky
2007-02-20 22:14                     ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-02-20 22:48                       ` SLAB cache reaper on isolated cpus Max Krasnyansky
2007-02-20 23:19                         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-21  3:41                           ` Max Krasnyansky
2007-02-20 21:05             ` slab: start_cpu_timer/cache_reap CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU problems Max Krasnyansky
2007-02-20 21:34               ` Christoph Lameter

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