On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> In acquire_slab() with mode = 1, we always set new.inuse = page->objects.
Yes with that we signal that we have extracted the objects from the slab.
> So
>
> acquire_slab(s, n, page, object == NULL);
>
> if (!object) {
> c->page = page;
> stat(s, ALLOC_FROM_PARTIAL);
> object = t;
> available = page->objects - page->inuse;
>
> !!!!!! available is always 0 !!!!!!
Correct. We should really count the objects that we extracted in
acquire_slab(). Please update the description to the patch and repost.
Also it would be nice if we had some way to avoid passing a pointer to an
integer to acquire_slab. If we cannot avoid that then ok but it would be
nicer without that.
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