RE: [PATCH 1/3] slub: set a criteria for slub node partial adding

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed Dec 14 2011 - 01:47:43 EST


On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
We should try to batch things a bit, instead of doing a very small unit
of work in slow path.

We now have a very fast fastpath, but inefficient slow path.

SLAB has a litle cache per cpu, we could add one to SLUB for freed
objects, not belonging to current slab. This could avoid all these
activate/deactivate overhead.

Yeah, this is definitely worth looking at.

Pekka
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