Re: [RT LATENCY] 249 microsecond latency caused by slub'sunfreeze_partials() code.

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Mar 25 2013 - 10:44:35 EST


On Fri, 22 Mar 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> I uploaded it here:
>
> http://rostedt.homelinux.com/private/slab_partials
>
> See anything I should be worried about?

Looks fine. Maybe its the spinlocks being contended that cause the
long holdoff? How does RT deal with the spinlocks? Dont know too much
about it.

You can eliminate the whole thing by setting

/sys/kernel/slab/<whatever/cpu_partial

to zero.

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