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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1206011055230.8851@router.home>
Date:	Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:57:14 -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:

> 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.

Ok. This works because the pages are frozen and the node lock has been
taken so the only concurrency to worry about is freeing of objects via
slab_free(). The cmpxchg is safe for that.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>

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