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Hi,
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Yes it uses its own logic if the object is managed by SLUB but not if the
> > object is too big and/or the allocation forwarded to the page allocator
> > or for other internal allocations of buffers etc.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Wrong.
>
> It uses it's own logic for __GFP_ZERO *regardless* of size.
Christoph, I think you're overlooking the same thing I was until Linus
straightened me out. We're calling kmalloc_large() from __slab_alloc()
for the fall-back case which causes a bug fixed by Linus' revert.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> You don't have a f*cking clue about this cocde that you're supposed to be
> maintaining, do you?
Yeah, me too. Fortunately we have you as our upstream maintainer :-).
Pekka
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