Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:19:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
       Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
       Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [this_cpu_xx V6 7/7] this_cpu: slub aggressive use of this_cpu
  operations in the hotpaths
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Yeah, that should help but it's probably not something we can do for
> mainline. I'm not sure how we can fix SLUB to support large objects
> out-of-the-box as efficiently as SLAB does.

We could add a per cpu "queue" through a pointer array in kmem_cache_cpu.
Which is more SLQB than SLUB.

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