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SubjectRe: [patch -mm] cpusets: add memory_slab_hardwall flag
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Paul Menage wrote:

> Another thought - it would probably be better to call this flag
> kernel_mem_hardwall or mem_hardwall_kernel, to avoid hard-coding its
> name to be slab-specific.
>

The change only affects slab allocations, it doesn't affect all kernel
memory allocations. With slub, for example, allocations that are larger
than SLUB_MAX_ORDER (was formerly PAGE_SIZE) simply use compound pages
from the page allocator where the cpuset memory policy was already
enforced.

While there are a few different options for slab allocators in mainline
and slqb on the way, these are still generally referred to as "slab"
allocations regardless of which one is configured.

Prefixing the name with `memory_' just seemed natural considering the
tunables already in place such as memory_spread_page and
memory_spread_slab. The user also already understands `hardwall' since
mem_hardwall has existed for quite some time.


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