Re: [PATCH] slab: avoid unnecessary touching of a partial slab

[Christoph Lameter]

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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