linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanups

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jan 2007 11:50:57 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, apw@...dowen.org, hch@....de,
	manfred@...orfullife.com, christoph@...eter.com, pj@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanups

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:46:45 +0200 (EET)
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:

> Clean up __cache_alloc and __cache_alloc_node functions a bit.  We no 
> longer need to do NUMA_BUILD tricks and the UMA allocation path is much
> simpler. No functional changes in this patch.
> 
> Note: saves few kernel text bytes on x86 NUMA build due to using gotos in
> __cache_alloc_node() and moving __GFP_THISNODE check in to fallback_alloc().

Does this actually clean things up, or does it randomly move things around
while carefully retaining existing obscurity?  Not sure..


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