On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > s->cpu_partial determine the maximum number of objects kept > in the per cpu partial lists of a processor. Currently, it is used for > not only per cpu partial list but also cpu freelist. Therefore > get_partial_node() doesn't work properly according to our first intention. The "cpu freelist" in slub is the number of free objects in a specific page. There is nothing that s->cpu_partial can do about that. Maybe I do not understand you correctly. Could you explain this in some more detail? -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>