On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > There is a subtle bug when calculating a number of acquired objects. > After acquire_slab() is executed at first, page->inuse is same as > page->objects, then, available is always 0. So, we always go next > iteration. page->inuse is always < page->objects because the partial list is not used for slabs that are fully allocated. page->inuse == page->objects means that no objects are available on the slab and therefore the slab would have been removed from the partial list. > After that, we don't need return value of put_cpu_partial(). > So remove it. Hmmm... The code looks a bit easier to understand than what we have right now. Could you try to explain it better? -- 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>