linux-kernel - Re: slab: cache alloc cleanups

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Message-ID: <courier.459EAE2D.00003EE3@courier.cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:59:41 +0200
From:	"Pekka J Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, apw@...dowen.org, hch@....de,
	manfred@...orfullife.com, christoph@...eter.com, pj@....com
Subject: Re: slab: cache alloc cleanups

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

Heh, the bulk of it is basically splitting the current __cache_alloc into 
separate UMA and NUMA paths via __do_cache_alloc so we don't have to play 
with NUMA_BUILD tricks. I also moved __cache_alloc_node in the same 
CONFIG_NUMA block as __cache_alloc while I was at it. 

                     Pekka 
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