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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> 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.

We have been down this road repeatedly. Nick tried it, I tried it and
neither got us to something we liked. Please consult the archives.

There was a whole patch series last year that I did introducing per cpu
caches which ended up in the "unified" patches. See the archives for the
various attempts please.

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