Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:07:57 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence |
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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> The problem here is that it's not enough that we make GFP_RECLAIM_MASK a > variable. There are various _debugging checks_ that happen much earlier > than that. We need to mask out those too which adds overhead to > kmalloc() fastpath, for example.
True. The GFP_RECLAIM_MASK only addresses the passing of gfp flags from a derived allocator to the page allocator. It will deal only with the issue of GFP_WAIT handling.
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