Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:08:17 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slab: avoid unnecessary touching of a partial slab |
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Zhao Jin wrote:
> In cache_alloc_refill(), after refilling from a partial slab, if the > slab remains partial, it would be deleted from and then added again to > the partial list. As the slab is the first element in the list before > deletion, such behavior has no effect. This patch avoids touching the > slab in this case.
The list_del/list_add action is a list_move.
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