On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > > > + do { > > + tid = this_cpu_read(s->cpu_slab->tid); > > + c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab); > > + } while (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT) && unlikely(tid != c->tid)); Here is another one without debugging: 0xffffffff811d23bb <+59>: mov %gs:0x8(%r9),%rdx tid(rdx) = this_cpu_read() 0xffffffff811d23c0 <+64>: mov %r9,%r8 0xffffffff811d23c3 <+67>: add %gs:0x7ee37d9d(%rip),%r8 c (r8) = 0xffffffff811d23cb <+75>: cmp 0x8(%r8),%rdx c->tid == tid 0xffffffff811d23cf <+79>: jne 0xffffffff811d23bb <kmem_cache_alloc+59> Actually that looks ok. -- 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>