On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > An unlikely branch is used to make sure this case does not affect > performance in the usual slab_free path. > > The slab allocator has a time based reaper that would eventually get rid > of the objects, but we can also call it explicitly, since dead caches > are not a likely event. This is also something that could be done from slab_common since all allocators have kmem_cache_shrink and kmem_cache_shrink can be used to drain the caches and free up empty slab pages. -- 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>