On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Christoph Lameter wrote: > If the allocator is SLAB then I would think that this is a stall of > slabinfo mutex vs. slab clean operations (gets more frequent the more > processors are in the box). > > If this is the case then using the SLUB allocator will fix the issue since > SLUB does not need to perform cache cleaning. >
Or convert slab_mutex to be a rwlock? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
