Severe performance degradation observed where slub_debug=P for poisoning is turned on in all slab caches

Solution Unverified - Updated -

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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