> From: Anton Blanchard
> We noticed a huge amount of slab memory consumed on a large ppc64 box:
>
> Slab: 2094336 kB
>
> Almost 2GB. This box is not balanced and some nodes do not have local
> memory, causing slub to be very inefficient in its slab usage.
>
> Each time we call kmem_cache_alloc_node slub checks the per cpu slab,
> sees it isn't node local, deactivates it and tries to allocate a new
> slab. ...
...
> if (unlikely(!node_match(page, node))) {
> stat(s, ALLOC_NODE_MISMATCH);
> deactivate_slab(s, page, c->freelist);
> c->page = NULL;
> c->freelist = NULL;
> goto new_slab;
> }
Why not just delete the entire test?
Presumably some time a little earlier no local memory was available.
Even if there is some available now, it is very likely that some won't
be available again in the near future.
David.
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