SLAB: don't allocate empty shared caches
We can avoid allocating empty shared caches and avoid unecessary check of cache->limit. We save some memory. We avoid bringing into CPU cache unecessary cache lines. All accesses to l3->shared are already checking NULL pointers so this patch is safe. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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