Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...>, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...>, LKML <linux-kernel@...>
The "queue" that you are talking about is the freelist of a slab. It exist
for each slab. SLAB uses a table of free entries there. The freelist is
limited to a slab and thus the locality of the freelist is bound to
the same page which avoids NUMA locality checks.
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