On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 21:55 +0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sun, 2 Oct 2011, Shi, Alex wrote: > > > > A slab on the partial lists always has objects available. Why would it be > > > zero? > > > > Um, my mistaken. The reason should be: if code is here, the slab will be per cpu slab. > > It is no chance to be in per cpu partial and no relationship with per cpu partial. So > > no reason to use this value as a criteria for filling per cpu partial. > > I am not sure I understand you. The point of the code is to count the > objects available in the per cpu partial pages so that we can limit the > number of pages we fetch from the per node partial list. Maybe my understanding is incorrect for PCP. :) What I thought is: when object == null, the page we got from node partial list will be added into cpu slab. It has no chance to become per cpu partial page. And it has no relationship with further per cpu partial count checking. Since even 'available > cpu_partial/2', it doesn't mean per cpu partial objects number > cpu_partial/2. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>