linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.1-rc0

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:40:36 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.1-rc0

Le vendredi 22 juillet 2011 à 11:08 +0300, Pekka Enberg a écrit :
>> Here's batch of slab/slub/slob changes accumulated over the past few months.
>> The biggest changes are alignment unification from Christoph Lameter and SLUB
>> debugging improvements from Ben Greear. Also notable is SLAB 'struct
>> kmem_cache' shrinkage from Eric Dumazet that helps large SMP systems.

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Please note that the SLUB lockless slowpath patches will be sent in a separate
>> pull request.
>>
>>                          Pekka
>
> Hi Pekka
>
> Could we also merge in 3.1 following "simple enough" patch ?
>
> Thanks
>
> [PATCH] slab: remove one NR_CPUS dependency
>
> Reduce high order allocations in do_tune_cpucache() for some setups.
> (NR_CPUS=4096 -> we need 64KB)
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
> CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>

Sorry for the delay. I applied the patch and will send it to Linus within 
few days.

 			Pekka