On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:04:52AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > This fixes an old bug in iproute2's ss command because it was > reading slabinfo to get statistics. There isn't a better API > to do this, and one can argue that /proc is a UAPI that must > not change. > > Therefore this patch set adds a flag to slab to give another > reason to prevent merging, and then uses it in network code.
This is exactly the solution I would have suggested. Note that SLUB has always had slab merging, so this tool has been broken since 2.6.22 on any kernel with CONFIG_SLUB. Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawil...@microsoft.com>
