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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: Don't throw away partial remote slabs if there is
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Hi David,

> Why not just delete the entire test?
> Presumably some time a little earlier no local memory was available.
> Even if there is some available now, it is very likely that some won't
> be available again in the near future.

I agree, the current behaviour seems strange but it has been around
since the inital slub commit.

Anton