Re: [patch 0/6] Per cpu structures for SLUB

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Aug 23 2007 - 05:52:20 EST


Hi,

while I like this patch set I'm at odds with the interaction of this and
making the alloc/free fast paths lockless.

The main race is s->cpu_slab[] and c->freelist. How does one close that
gap?

(btw, have you looked at my -rt slub patch?)

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