linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Quicklist is slighly problematic.

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Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:10:07 -0500
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	holt@....com, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tokunaga.keiich@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Quicklist is slighly problematic.

David Miller wrote:

> Using SLAB/SLUB for the page table bits with appropriate constructor
> and destructor bits ought to be able to approximate the gains
> from avoiding the initialization for cached objects.

Its a bit strange to use the small object allocator for page sized
allocations. Plus there is this tie in with the tlb flushing logic. So I think
this would be more clean if it would be moved into the asm-generic/tlb.h or so.
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