Slab defragmentation: Log information to the syslog to show defrag operations Dump information into the syslog during defragmentation actions to show that something is occurring and what effect it has. This is likely only useful for mm for testing. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- mm/slub.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1.orig/mm/slub.c 2007-07-06 20:04:54.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/mm/slub.c 2007-07-06 20:06:45.000000000 -0700 @@ -2599,6 +2599,8 @@ static unsigned long sort_partial_list(s return freed; } +#define NR_INUSE 40 + /* * Shrink the slab cache on a particular node of the cache */ @@ -2610,6 +2612,8 @@ static unsigned long __kmem_cache_shrink LIST_HEAD(zaplist); int freed; int inuse; + int nr[NR_INUSE] = { 0, }; + int i; spin_lock_irqsave(&n->list_lock, flags); freed = sort_partial_list(s, n, scratch); @@ -2646,6 +2650,8 @@ static unsigned long __kmem_cache_shrink n->nr_partial--; SetSlabFrozen(page); slab_unlock(page); + if (inuse < NR_INUSE) + nr[inuse]++; } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&n->list_lock, flags); @@ -2659,6 +2665,13 @@ static unsigned long __kmem_cache_shrink if (__kmem_cache_vacate(s, page, flags, scratch) == 0) freed++; } + printk(KERN_INFO "Slab %s: Defrag freed %d pages. PartSlab config=", + s->name, freed << s->order); + + for (i = 0; i < NR_INUSE; i++) + if (nr[i]) + printk(" %d=%d", i, nr[i]); + printk("\n"); return freed; }