linux-kernel - Re: SLUB regression in current Linus

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Date:	Wed, 25 May 2011 17:45:41 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SLUB regression in current Linus

Le mercredi 25 mai 2011 à 10:04 -0500, Christoph Lameter a écrit :
> On Wed, 25 May 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > So simply return the object. In the debug case we do not need all the other
> > > processing that unlock_out: does.
> >
> > So that patch looks like it should explain things.
> >
> > But exactly why don't we need the ->tid update and the ALLOC_SLOWPATH
> > stats? Both of them would seem to be equally valid for the debug case.
> 
> We always fall back to the slow path in the debug case. So the tid update
> is useless.

tid change is updated anyway at the end of deactivate_slab()


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