Re: [PATCH] slub: try to get cpu partial slab even if we get enoughobjects for cpu freelist

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> s->cpu_partial determine the maximum number of objects kept
> in the per cpu partial lists of a processor. Currently, it is used for
> not only per cpu partial list but also cpu freelist. Therefore
> get_partial_node() doesn't work properly according to our first intention.

The "cpu freelist" in slub is the number of free objects in a specific
page. There is nothing that s->cpu_partial can do about that.

Maybe I do not understand you correctly. Could you explain this in some
more detail?
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