On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 15:41 +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The control is via the cpu_partial field in /sys/kernel/slab/<cache>/ > > There is also slabs_cpu_partial which gives a view as to how many objects > are cached in each per cpu structure. Do a cat > > /sys/kernel/*/slabs_cpu_partial to get a view of what the situation is. > Any abnormally high numbers? > > The default for the number of per cpu partial objects should be 30 or so. I just triggered another latency: hackbenc-31634 5d..31 103261.991668: sched_switch: hackbench:31634 [120] D ==> hackbench:36093 [120] hackbenc-36093 5d...0 103261.991670: funcgraph_entry: ! 225.665 us | unfreeze_partials(); hackbenc-36093 5d...0 103261.991897: funcgraph_entry: | smp_apic_timer_interrupt() { hackbenc-36093 5d.h10 103261.991897: hrtimer_expire_entry: hrtimer=0xffff881f5ca7fe88 now=103293011955940 function=hrtimer_wakeup/0x0 hackbenc-36093 5d.h30 103261.991898: sched_wakeup: cyclictest:8946 [4] success=1 CPU:005 hackbenc-36093 5dN..0 103261.991901: funcgraph_exit: 3.589 us | } hackbenc-36093 5d..30 103261.991902: sched_switch: hackbench:36093 [120] R ==> cyclictest:8946 [4] I did a: cat /sys/kernel/slab/*/slabs_cpu_partial > slab_partials I uploaded it here: http://rostedt.homelinux.com/private/slab_partials See anything I should be worried about? Thanks, -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html