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. > Without fully understanding it, I've decided to implement the same > behavior for SLOB, > leaving page-size allocations unaccounted on /proc/meminfo. > > Is this expected / wanted ? Yes that is fine. > SLAB, on the other side, handles every allocation through some slab cache, > so it always set the zone state. Right but the caching barely has any effect at large sizes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
