From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030233AbXADVQR (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:16:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030235AbXADVQR (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:16:17 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:59315 "EHLO mail.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030233AbXADVQQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:16:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 22:15:43 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Pekka J Enberg Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org, hch@lst.de, manfred@colorfullife.com, christoph@lameter.com, pj@sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanups Message-ID: <20070104211543.GA21917@lst.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: -0.001 () BAYES_44 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:47:06PM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > [Andrew, I have been unable to find a NUMA-capable tester for this patch, > so can we please put this in to -mm for some exposure?] > > From: Pekka Enberg > > This patch cleans up __cache_alloc and __cache_alloc_node functions. We no > longer need to do NUMA_BUILD tricks and the UMA allocation path is much > simpler. Note: we now do alternate_node_alloc() for kmem_cache_alloc_node as > well. Seems to work nicely on my 2node cell blade.