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SubjectRe: [PATCH] slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, David Rientjes wrote:

> > This means touching another field from critical paths of the allocators.
> > It would increase the cache footprint and therefore reduce performance.
> >
>
> To clarify your statement, you're referring to the mm/slab.c allocation of
> new slab pages and when debugging is enabled as "critical paths", correct?
> We would disagree on that point.

This is not debugging specific. Flags are also consulted to do RCU
processing and other things.


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