Severe performance degradation observed where slub_debug=P for poisoning is turned on in all slab caches
Issue
- After enabling slub_debug=P for poisoning, network throughput severely dropped.
- We need to enable slub_debug=P to satisfy STIG requirement, however enabling it has significant impact on the network performance, and the drop% is unacceptable.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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