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Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: prefetch next freelist pointer in slab_alloc()
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On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Recycling a page is a problem, since freelist link chain is hot on
>> cpu(s) which freed objects, and possibly very cold on cpu currently
>> owning slab.

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Good idea. How do the tcp benchmarks look after this?
>
> Looks sane.
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>

Applied, thanks!