From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:25:54 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator In-Reply-To: <1172133274.6374.12.camel@twins> Message-ID: References: <1172133274.6374.12.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm , akpm@linux-foundation.org List-ID: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 23:00 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > +/* > > + * Lock order: > > + * 1. slab_lock(page) > > + * 2. slab->list_lock > > + * > > That seems to contradict this: This is a trylock. If it fails then we can compensate by allocating a new slab. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org