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

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Message-ID: <84144f020701120122v4fdcc6a8l81053885256c1339@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:22:40 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	akpm@...l.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hugh@...itas.com, clameter@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: cache_grow cleanup

Hi Andrew,

On 1/9/07, Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
>
> The current implementation of cache_grow() has to either (1) use pre-allocated
> memory for the slab or (2) allocate the memory itself which makes the error
> paths messy. Move __GFP_NO_GROW and __GFP_WAIT processing to kmem_getpages()
> and introduce a new __cache_grow() variant that expects the memory for a new
> slab to always be handed over in the 'objp' parameter.
>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

Can we get this into -mm, please?
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