Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:56:56 +0100 | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache_free |
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Pekka J Enberg a écrit : > Thanks for the profile. I still wonder where exactly thouse super-hot > call-sites are... >
In this case, it's a typical network server
Each time a packet is sent to or received from network, network stack has to allocate/free a skb (kmem_cache_alloc()/kmem_cache_free() and its data (kmalloc/kfree)
Other paths are for example dentries allocations, file allocations, ... really many spots for some workloads.
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