Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:37:45 +0100 | From | "Vegard Nossum" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SLUB: use page allocator for PAGE_SIZE requests |
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote: >> From 4d526db4781aaab86cb79ff8135bb0e2bc560598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> >> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:27:54 +0100 >> Subject: [PATCH] SLUB: use page allocator for PAGE_SIZE requests >> >> It seems strange that we should use the page allocator for >> requests of (PAGE_SIZE + 1) bytes or more, and not for requests >> that are exactly PAGE_SIZE. > > Actually, there are some more places that need to be fixed. I think > I'll send an updated patch that fixes all of them.
ACTUALLY, please ignore whole thread. I now read the commit message of
commit 331dc558fa020451ff773973cee855fd721aa88e Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Date: Thu Feb 14 14:28:09 2008 -0800
slub: Support 4k kmallocs again to compensate for page allocator slowness
:-/
Sorry for the noise.
Vegard
-- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
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