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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 20:54, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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!

m68k/allmodconfig at http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/5527349/

mm/slub.c:274: error: implicit declaration of function 'prefetch'

Sorry, didn't notice it earlier due to other build breakage in -next.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

            Geert

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