Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:52:18 +0200 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24 |
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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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