Re: [PATCH 2/3] slub: correct bootstrap() for kmem_cache,kmem_cache_node

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Jan 15 2013 - 10:35:56 EST


On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> These didn't make any error previously, because we normally don't free
> objects which comes from kmem_cache's first slab and kmem_cache_node's.

And these slabs are on the partial list because the objects are typically
relatively small compared to page size. Do you have a system with a very
large kmem_cache size?

> Problem will be solved if we consider a cpu slab in bootstrap().
> This patch implement it.

At boot time only one processor is up so you do not need the loop over all
processors.
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