Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2008 12:21:27 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Christoph Lameter <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 21/21] slab defrag: Obsolete SLAB | |
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Interrupt exit in general would have to inspect the per cpu structures of
> > all slab caches on the system?> > Why's that? When we're not under pressure (fast path), we can delay (and
> batch) remote frees. When we are under pressure (slow path), we can do
> everything immediately.
Fastpath is what? I guess slow path means we called into the page
allocator?
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