linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] slub: refactoring unfreeze

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 13:30:54 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] slub: refactoring unfreeze_partials()

On Fri, 18 May 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> I think that these are disadvantages of current implementation,
> so I do refactoring unfreeze_partials().

The reason the current implementation is so complex is to avoid races. The
state of the list and the state of the partial pages must be consistent at
all times.

> Minimizing code in do {} while loop introduce a reduced fail rate
> of cmpxchg_double_slab. Below is output of 'slabinfo -r kmalloc-256'
> when './perf stat -r 33 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null' is done.

Looks good. If I can convince myself that this does not open up any
new races then I may ack it.
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