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Message-ID: <19f34abd0811220435r38e749e3o425d994912fc92ea@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:35:02 +0100
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	"Mel Gorman" <mel@....ul.ie>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLUB: use page allocator for PAGE_SIZE requests

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:
> From 4d526db4781aaab86cb79ff8135bb0e2bc560598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:27:54 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] SLUB: use page allocator for PAGE_SIZE requests
>
> It seems strange that we should use the page allocator for
> requests of (PAGE_SIZE + 1) bytes or more, and not for requests
> that are exactly PAGE_SIZE.

Actually, there are some more places that need to be fixed. I think
I'll send an updated patch that fixes all of them.


Vegard

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"The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while
the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it
disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
	-- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
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