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SubjectRe: [PATCH] SLUB use cmpxchg_local
* Christoph Lameter (clameter@sgi.com) wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> > > The slow path would require disable preemption and two interrupt disables.
> > If the slow path have to call new_slab, then yes. But it seems that not
> > every slow path must call it, so for the other slow paths, only one
> > interrupt disable would be required.
>
> If we include new_slab then we get to 3 times:
>
> 1. In the cmpxchg_local emulation that fails
>
> 2. For the slow path
>
> 3. When calling the page allocator.
>

Hrm, I just want to certify one thing: A lot of code paths seems to go
to the slow path without requiring cmpxchg_local to execute at all. So
is the slow path more likely to be triggered by the (!object),
(!node_match) tests or by these same tests done in the redo after the
initial cmpxchg_local ?

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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