LLC-load-miss is exactly what condition?
The cacheline environment in the hotpath should only include the following
cache lines (without debugging and counters):
1. The first cacheline from the kmem_cache structure
(This is different from the sitation before the 2.6.34 changes. Earlier
some critical values (object length etc) where available
from the kmem_cache_cpu structure. The cacheline containing the percpu
structure array was needed to determome the kmem_cache_cpu address!)
2. The first cacheline from kmem_cache_cpu
3. The first cacheline of the data object (free pointer)
And in case of a kfree/ kmem_cache_free:
4. Cacheline that contains the page struct of the page the object resides
in.
Can you post the .config you are using and the bootup messages?
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