From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: chris@chris-wilson.co.uk, keithp@keithp.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, airlied@linux.ie,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i915: slab shrinker have to return -1 if it cant shrink any objects
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:47:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110714034701.GA31294@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E1E58E8.6040200@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:48:08AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> >> If you are thinking the shrinker protocol is too complicated, doc update
> >> patch is really welcome.
> >
> > Slab shrinkers have a nasty, crappy interface and the shrink_slab()
> > code is full of bugs. Rather that telling people to "update the
> > documentation" because it's too complex, how about we fix the
> > interface and the bugs?
>
> If you can take your time for that, I don't hesitate to help you. ;)
Its on my list of things to do if nobody else steps before I get
there ;)
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-14 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-24 8:03 [PATCH] i915: slab shrinker have to return -1 if it can't shrink any objects KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-06-30 3:53 ` Keith Packard
2011-06-30 3:53 ` Keith Packard
2011-06-30 8:55 ` [PATCH] i915: slab shrinker have to return -1 if it cant " Chris Wilson
2011-06-30 8:55 ` Chris Wilson
2011-07-12 9:36 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-07-12 10:06 ` Chris Wilson
2011-07-13 0:19 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-07-13 7:41 ` Chris Wilson
2011-07-13 8:19 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-07-13 8:40 ` Chris Wilson
2011-07-13 11:34 ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-13 10:42 ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-14 2:48 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-07-14 3:47 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
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