Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:22:40 +0200 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slab: cache_grow cleanup |
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Hi Andrew,
On 1/9/07, Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: > From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> > > The current implementation of cache_grow() has to either (1) use pre-allocated > memory for the slab or (2) allocate the memory itself which makes the error > paths messy. Move __GFP_NO_GROW and __GFP_WAIT processing to kmem_getpages() > and introduce a new __cache_grow() variant that expects the memory for a new > slab to always be handed over in the 'objp' parameter. > > Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> > Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> > Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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