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On Tue, 23 Nov 2021, Wonhyuk Yang wrote:

> Yes, that's why transaction id is made up of two part CPU id and event id
> (To guarantee there are no other events and migrations).
> And the guarantee is ultimately to protect cpu_slab->freelist.

Well that is the way it was initially because I thought along the same
way. You can simply revert the patches that introduced the TID to get that
version back (and the races too.....) if you want to try.