linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

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Message-ID: <47ED4E33.9070203@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:59:47 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@...com.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That stupid clearing in new_slab() is totally and utterly irrelevant (in 
> addition to the fact that it's hard to spot).
> 
> The point was never new_slab(). So why do you even mention it?

Because I didn't spot that we're calling kmalloc_large() in the fallback 
path too. I was referring to the page allocator pass-through 
kmalloc_large() call that happens before we hit __slab_alloc. My bad, sorry.

			Pekka
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