linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/6] Per cpu structures for SLUB

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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:52:04 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] Per cpu structures for SLUB

Hi,

while I like this patch set I'm at odds with the interaction of this and
making the alloc/free fast paths lockless. 

The main race is s->cpu_slab[] and c->freelist. How does one close that
gap?

(btw, have you looked at my -rt slub patch?)

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