Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator

Christoph Lameter
2007-02-22T15:25:55Z

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.