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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs: fcntl_setlease defies lease_init assumptions
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Right now the __cache_free() chain does "virt_to_page()" on NUMA
> regardless, through the
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> {
> struct slab *slabp;
> slabp = virt_to_slab(objp);
> ,,,
>
> thing. The suggested patch obviously makes it do it _twice_: once to get
> the cachep, once to get the slabp. But some simple re-organization would
> make it do it just once, if we passed in the "struct page *" instead of
> the "struct cachep" - since in the end, every single path into the real
> core of the allocator does end up needing it.

Sounds like the best approach to address this rather than another slab
redesign.

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