linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: avoid unnecessary touching of a partial slab

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Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:58:01 +0800
From:	Zhao Jin <cronozhj@...il.com>
To:	cl@...ux-foundation.org, penberg@...nel.org, mpm@...enic.com,
	trivial@...nel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: avoid unnecessary touching of a partial slab

Sorry, one line in this patch does not conform to the coding style of
kernel source code. Here is the corrected version:

---
 mm/slab.c |    8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 6d90a09..0c7a212 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3121,11 +3121,13 @@ retry:
 		check_slabp(cachep, slabp);

 		/* move slabp to correct slabp list: */
-		list_del(&slabp->list);
-		if (slabp->free == BUFCTL_END)
+		if (slabp->free == BUFCTL_END) {
+			list_del(&slabp->list);
 			list_add(&slabp->list, &l3->slabs_full);
-		else
+		} else if (&slabp->list != l3->slabs_partial.next) {
+			list_del(&slabp->list);
 			list_add(&slabp->list, &l3->slabs_partial);
+		}
 	}

 must_grow:
-- 
1.7.4.1
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