On Fri, 18 May 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > Minimizing code in do {} while loop introduce a reduced fail rate > of cmpxchg_double_slab. Below is output of 'slabinfo -r kmalloc-256' > when './perf stat -r 33 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null' is done. Ok. This works because the pages are frozen and the node lock has been taken so the only concurrency to worry about is freeing of objects via slab_free(). The cmpxchg is safe for that. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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>