On Wed 17-05-17 22:11:40, Wei Yang wrote: > This patch serial could be divided into two parts. > > First three patches refine and adds slab sysfs. > Second three patches rename slab sysfs. > > 1. Refine slab sysfs > > There are four level slabs: > > CPU > CPU_PARTIAL > PARTIAL > FULL > > And in sysfs, it use show_slab_objects() and cpu_partial_slabs_show() to > reflect the statistics. > > In patch 2, it splits some function in show_slab_objects() which makes sure > only cpu_partial_slabs_show() covers statistics for CPU_PARTIAL slabs. > > After doing so, it would be more clear that show_slab_objects() has totally 9 > statistic combinations for three level of slabs. Each slab has three cases > statistic. > > slabs > objects > total_objects > > And when we look at current implementation, some of them are missing. So patch > 2 & 3 add them up. > > 2. Rename sysfs > > The slab statistics in sysfs are > > slabs > objects > total_objects > cpu_slabs > partial > partial_objects > cpu_partial_slabs > > which is a little bit hard for users to understand. The second three patches > rename sysfs file in this pattern. > > xxx_slabs[[_total]_objects] > > Finally it looks Like > > slabs > slabs_objects > slabs_total_objects > cpu_slabs > cpu_slabs_objects > cpu_slabs_total_objects > partial_slabs > partial_slabs_objects > partial_slabs_total_objects > cpu_partial_slabs
_Why_ do we need all this? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
