2nd part for faster object transfer between cpus: Make it tunable by writing to /proc/slabinfo. The patch is against 2.5.69-mm6, it applies to 2.5.69-bk12 with some offsets. What do you think? The change breaks backward compatibility: previously /proc/slabinfo expected two numbers (batchcount, limit), now it expects three numbers (batchcount, limit, sharedfactor). Calls with the wrong number of arguments just fail. -- Manfred