Re: [PATCH] slub: prefetch next freelist pointer in slab_alloc()

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Jan 24 2012 - 14:55:15 EST


On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
Recycling a page is a problem, since freelist link chain is hot on
cpu(s) which freed objects, and possibly very cold on cpu currently
owning slab.

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Good idea. How do the tcp benchmarks look after this?

Looks sane.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks!
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